Top South Africa Quotes

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 p...

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 i...

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo...

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

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.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

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.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.' But the serious critique of Zuma is n...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

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.