Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?