Quotes
Quotes about Fame
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
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.
Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.
Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet, Flag fames in song and story Long may it wave, old glory The flag that has never known defeat.
United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.
