Fame Quotes
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Buddha
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
Byron, Lord
O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. -- Lord Byron
Chamfort, Sebastian
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. -- Sebastian Chamfort
Dickinson, Emily
How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog! -- Emily Dickinson
Hare and Charles
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. -- Hare & Charles
Hazlitt, William
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. -- William Hazlitt
Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Martial
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Mencken, H.L.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. -- H. L. Mencken
Miller, Joaquin
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. -- Joaquin Miller
Shakespeare, William
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. -- William Shakespeare
Stanislaus, Leszczynski
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. -- Leszczynski Stanislaus
Thoreau, Henry David
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.