Laertius Diogenes Famous Quotes
"Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed."
"The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man."
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
I am a citizen of the world.
All things are in common among friends.
"'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.'"
Time is the image of eternity.
"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance."
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
"Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead."
"Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down."
"When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'"
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."
Laertius Diogenes Quotations
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
Oscar Wilde
So I can't live either without you or with you.
Ovid
Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.
Sir Thomas Beecham
"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E Woodberry
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
What is history but a fable agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred' And they'll say, 'Fred who' And you say, 'Fred of snakes' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts