Quotes from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.

I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.