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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Have you a room that you could let?Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let it. I have only two rooms, and there are six of us already, and the boys and girls are growing up. But...

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

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

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...

Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.In...