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.
We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.
Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age.
Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
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.
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.
Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.
You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.
Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.
Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.
Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.
Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.
It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.
Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids.
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.
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.
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a president!
~ Ljupka Cvetanova
Walking through life, we spend most of our energy choosing the right shoes.
Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!
Most sexually adventurous women want a man who regards cunnilingus as a basic woman right.
Life is a circle. It spins you around.
Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society’s disapproval.
A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.
We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.
We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.
To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necessity of recognizing opportunity then seizing it when it stuck.
~ Joseph G. Peterson
If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
A criminal always returns home.
No air, no balloons!
In searching for myself, I have created myself.
Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.
I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face.
Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!
It's not over till the fat lady eats!
Don't let the devil fool you! Unless he's handsome.