Epigrams Quotes

"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest."

Wilson Mizner

"When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."

Wilson Mizner

"Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore."

Wilson Mizner

"Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education."

Wilson Mizner

"Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down."

Wilson Mizner

"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?"

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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