Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

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

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

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

I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable indulgent affectionate shy and rather timid at heart.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful