“This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors.”

- Anonymous Art Historian, on news that a McDonald's fast-food outlet will be opening in the Louvre museum in Paris next month

 

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

- Diogenes, Greek Cynic philosopher known for his extreme asceticism