Diogenes Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

  Diogenes

  Dog, Rewards, Philosopher

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

  Diogenes

  Dog, Men, He Man

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.51, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Diogenes

  Dog, Kind, Greedy

• Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

  Diogenes

  Dog, Order, Enemy

  "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

• He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of "dog." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast."

  Diogenes

  Dog, Bystanders, Watches

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

• I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

  Diogenes

  Dog, Giving, Fawns

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