Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes - Page 7

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.
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Overrated is order.
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Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.
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Growing up is childish.
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For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.
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There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.
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Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.
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Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.
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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.
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Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.
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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.
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The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.
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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.
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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.
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No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.
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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.
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It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.
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88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.
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Memories rob us of the present.
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Life demands more thinking than remembering.
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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.
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Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer’s dream.
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A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.
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An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream—in that particular month.
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Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.
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*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.
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Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else’s nightmare.
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Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
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To put a dreamer in their place isn’t dreaming.
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The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.
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If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.
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Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite.
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To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
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To a misogynist: To err is woman.
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To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.
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Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.
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Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.
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Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.
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The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
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Friends are family members we have a choice over.
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Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.
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To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.
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To gain height, lose all your tall friends.
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After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.
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Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.
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If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
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Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
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Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.
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Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.
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A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined.
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To masturbate is to imagine: physically.
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Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.
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He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at the wrong time.*
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When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).
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Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.
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There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.
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Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.
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Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you’ve ‘known’ for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the ‘previous’ level.
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There is a correlation between one’s estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they’re currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship.
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When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)
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