Quotes by South African Authors - Page 44

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.
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Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.
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Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.
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He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.
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There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.
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There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.
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Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.
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We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.
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People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
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Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.
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Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.
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The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.
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Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.
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Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.
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The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.
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By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
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Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.
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Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.
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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.
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A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.
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If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.
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The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.
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Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.
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Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.
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With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.
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Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
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Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.
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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
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An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.
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Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.
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Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.
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You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.
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Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.
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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
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Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.
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Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
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When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.
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The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
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One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.
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The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.
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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
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Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
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We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.
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We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.
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More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.
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Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.
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Some people will hate you for not loving them.
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We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
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The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.
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A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.
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Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.
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Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.
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A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.
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More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.
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Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
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Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.
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Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.
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Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
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