To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
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. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 07-15
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 07-08
Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 07-07