„If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.“

— Alexander the Great
„I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.“
— Alexander the Great
„When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."“
— Diogenes of Sinope
„Tatiana: "Alexander, were you looking for me?"Alexander: "All my life.“
— Paullina Simons
„I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.“
— Dorothy Parker
„I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.“
— Emily Brontë
„If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…“
— Alexander the Great
„Alexander, were you looking for me?“
— Paullina Simons
„I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson