Fame Quotes
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
William Whitehead -
I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.
William Shakespeare
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At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
Nick Mancuso -
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
Marilyn Monroe -
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
Mike Weir -
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would leave the reader puzzled and cowed. He should then here and there smuggle in a few sensible, straightforward sentences all could understand. The reader would feel that since he has grasped this part, he must have also grasped the rest. He would then congratulate himself and praise the author.
Anthony de Jasay -
But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
Homer -
Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.
Marilyn Monroe
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A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
Sun Tzu -
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong -
Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.
Jonathan Kellerman -
Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
William Rowan Hamilton -
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
Sallust -
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
Wilkie Collins
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Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
William Shenstone -
I’m very excited and honored to be elected to the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
Hal Blaine -
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish -
Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Marilyn Monroe -
I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
Julia Roberts -
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
Francis Bacon
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
William Hazlitt -
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
Cato the Elder -
It stirs up envy, fame does.
Marilyn Monroe -
No record of her high descent There needs, nor memory of her name; Enough that Raphael’s colors blent To give her features deathless fame.
William Allen Butler