Quotes about aphorisms

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

I am not a titleholder I don't steal I don't lie...

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Not everything happens for a reason we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

We seldom look up to the person we usually look up to their persona.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Most women sell sex most of them just don’t take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one ‘client’ at a time).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Some people do not really hate aging they merely love the colour black.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

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 - The Use and Misuse of Children

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single and some people would not have done that.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Most people do kiss and tell most of them just don’t tell many people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty they merely aspire to escape it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

The wind is blowing. Don’t bend if you want to please him.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Modesty is fear.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Hide in the morrow. No one will look for you there.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Love at first sight? Let me just put on my glasses.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Ljupka Cvetanova -

Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you’re smart, you’ll end up as a comedian. If you’re not, you’ll end up as a clown.

Joseph G. Peterson - Wanted: Elevator Man

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.

Ljupka Cvetanova -

A criminal always returns home.

Johann Kaspar Lavater -

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Emil M. Cioran -

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

No air, no balloons!

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

In searching for myself, I have created myself.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

It's not over till the fat lady eats!

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Don't let the devil fool you! Unless he's handsome.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Selfie-centered person!

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

I'm not a saint! Thanks God!

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality.

Josh Stern -

It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

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 -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

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.

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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 -

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 -

Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet.

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