Quotes from Diogenes the Cynic

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition: "With broad flat nails."

I am looking for an honest man.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.