We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

You don't know how Fate finds you, and neither do I. But until it does, we get to be whatever we can be."pg 354

All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

The sleepy like to make excuses.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Death is the great transition.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

If we just planned for everything we could, we’d make it through everything we couldn’t.

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.