Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

Education is what they equip you with, just in case your dream doesn't workout.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life demands more thinking than remembering.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Memories rob us of the present.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Poor people do not go on holiday, they go home.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Growing up is childish.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Overrated is order.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is nothing wrong with being wrong.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The fear of failure is a liability.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana