"When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly.""
— Diogenes of Sinope

January 1, 1970

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Variant: If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. — As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, p. 274