Janet > Janet's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 32

« previous 1 2 next »

#1

“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

tags: aphorism, existential, life-lessons, motivational

127 likes

#2

“The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”
― Rebecca McClanahan

tags: aphorism, life

50 likes

#3

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, condemn, criticism, criticize, deplore, enemies, enemy, envious, envy, failure, failures, gossip, humor, humour, jealous, jealousy, please, pleasure, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, success, successes, swear

90 likes

#4

“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, boyfriend, boyfriends, convince, convinced, convincing, date, dating, deep, deserve, deserving, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humble, humbled, humility, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, partner, partners, persuade, persuaded, persuading, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, true, wife, wives

67 likes

#5

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: alone, alone-quotes, aphorism, aphorisms, cellphones, facebook, humor, humour, insane, insanity, instagram, invention, inventions-quotes, isolation, madness, sane, sanity, satire, seclusion, smartphones, smile, smile-quotes, social-media, solitude, technology, technology-addiction, technology-quotes, twitter

81 likes

#6

“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, appreciate, appreciation, axiom, axioms, bighearted, callous, caring, charitable, cold, cold-hearted, compassionate, considerate, cruel, death, deep, dictum, dictums, empathetic, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, hard-hearted, heartless, humane, humor, humour, inconsiderate, inhuman, insensitive, insightful, kind, lenient, life, life-partner, life-partners, love, lover, lovers, loving, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mean-spirited, merciful, merciless, need, needs, pitiless, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, remind, reminder, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sensitive, solicitous, stony-hearted, sympathetic, take-for-granted, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tolerant, uncaring, unconcerned, understanding, unfeeling, unkind, unsympathetic, want, wants, warm, waste

42 likes

#7

“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

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, appear, appearance, attire, attitude, attitudes, be-nice-be-nicer, clothes, clothing, consumerism, deceive, fail, failure, fake, families, family, family-member, family-members, fool, foolish, fools, friend, friends, humor, humour, impression, impressions, insult, insults, intellect, intelligence, intelligent, looks-can-be-deceiving, made-it, make-it, materialism, money, nice, poor, poverty, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, rich, riches, satire, stupid, stupidity, succeed, success, successful, wealth, wealthy

35 likes

#8

“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

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, consistency, consistent, crazy, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fake, gnome, gnomes, happiness, happy, humor, humour, immortality, insane, insanity, insightful, mad, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortality, pretend, pretense, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, sad, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unhappiness, unhappy

15 likes

#10

“A smart woman doesn't have to think if she is beautiful. A beautiful woman doesn't have to think if she is smart.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

tags: aphorism, beautiful, humorous, inner-beauty, man, natural-beauty, quote, smart, soulmates, woman

6 likes

#11

“I would have sold my soul to the devil, but my boss had a better offer.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

tags: aphorism, boss, capitalism, democracy, devil, devils-in-human-form, exploitation, poor, rich, work-for-a-living

3 likes

#12

“Be careful with the mask. You may get used to it.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

tags: act, aphorism, careful, clown, dangerous-liaisons, get-used-to-it, mask, pretence

10 likes

#13

“Normality? Keeping one's insanity a secret.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

tags: alter-ego, aphorism, ego, inner-self, inner-strength, insanity, keep-a-secret, normality, quote

6 likes

#14

“Kakistocracy protects kleptocrats. They all wear the evil, manipulative gloves of greed and power play. ~ Angelica Hopes, Karmic Harvest Trilogy”
― Angelica Hopes

tags: aphorism, greed, kakistocracy, karmic-harvest-trilogy, kleptocracy, power-play

3 likes

#15

“It's easy to write the history. All the eyewitnesses are dead.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

tags: aphorism, dead, democracy, easy, eyewitness, history, history-of-mankind, history-politics, history-repeating-itself, write

11 likes

#16

“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes a successful political campaign.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

tags: aphorism, become, campaign, government, lie, political, repeat, successful, thousand-times

5 likes

#17

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bachelor, bachelors, birth, born, boyfriend, boyfriends, breakup, breakups, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, divorce, divorces, epigram, epigrams, ex, exes, father, fatherhood, fathers, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, marriage, married, maxim, maxims, mom, moms, mother, mothers, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, relationships, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish, selfishness, single, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, trouble, troubled, wife, wives, world

49 likes

#18

“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: act, adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, believe, conform, conformity, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, expect, expectation, expectations, feel, feeling, feelings, funny, gnome, gnomes, human, human-being, human-beings, humanity, humans, humor, humorous, humour, insane, insanity, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, mankind, maxim, maxims, people, person, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, think, thought-provoking, thoughtful

25 likes

#19

“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, buy, buyer, buyers, capitalism, childfree, childless, collapse, communism, consumer, consumerism, consumers, credit, debt, deep, democracy, dictum, dictums, economies, economy, enjoy, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, karl-marx, made-me-think, make-you-think, marxism, materialism, maxim, maxims, own, ownership, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, realization, realize, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, socialism, socialist, socialists, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, world-economies

16 likes

#20

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148367 likes

#21

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119053 likes

#22

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51594 likes

#23

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35270 likes

#24

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37990 likes

#25

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32152 likes

#26

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

tags: humor, nerdfighters

21612 likes

#27

“A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

tags: inspirational, wisdom

129 likes

#28

“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: misattributed-to-alexander-pope, misattributed-to-dorothy-parker

179 likes

#29

“For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.”
― Matt Taibbi, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

12 likes

#30

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

176994 likes

#31

“The extent to which we hate and fear each other now -- that's not any one person's fault. But no one person was more at fault than Roger Ailes. He never had a soul to sell, so he sold ours.”
― Matt Taibbi

tags: fox-news, roger-ailes

1 likes

« previous 1 2 next »

All Quotes

Janet > Janet's Quotes

Tags From Janet’s Quotes