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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

580. DIOGENES AND THE BALD MAN
Perry 248 (Chambry 97)

A bald man insulted Diogenes the Cynic and Diogenes replied, 'Far be it from me to make insults! But I do want to compliment your hair for having abandoned such a worthless head.'

Note: For another anecdote about Diogenes the Cynic, see Fable 85.

Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.