When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

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

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

The moon was a fang in the lightning sky.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

The first cut is the deepest.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.