Aphorism Quotes

Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Silence is the most expensive to buy.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The Earth orbits round tables.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a president!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

We exist only to exist.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Pandora opened the box with the new high-heels, put them on and went out to town.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Galileo, yet men turn around women!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Men weigh love with hands.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova