fame quotes

• Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. (Robert Burns) [fame]
• Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? ( Socrates) [money/fame/prestige/think]
• People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business. (Francis Bacon) [people/position/fame/business]
• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. (Francis Bacon) [fame/light]
• Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. (Francis Bacon) [fame/willpower]
• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. (William Blake) [shame/fame]
• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. (Edmund Burke) [pleasure/fame/pleasure/instinct]
• Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. (Robert Burns) [fame]
• Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town. (Truman Capote) [fame/willpower]
• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. (Thomas Carlyle) [fame/property]
• If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne. (Miguel De Cervantes) [inaccessible/fame/path/poetry]
• The present condition of fame is merely fashion. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [present/condition/fame/fashion]
• Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. (Charles Caleb Colton) [present/fame/think/future]
• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. (Emily Dickinson) [fame/food]
• Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. (Benjamin Disraeli) [fame/power/men/pleasure]
• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [fame/prison/more]
• Fame is proof that the people are gullible. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [fame/people]
• There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. (Benjamin Franklin) [fame]
• Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. (Thomas Fuller) [fame/art/fame/more]
• If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [fame]
• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. (Horace Greeley) [fame/take/wings/thing]
• There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! (William Hazlitt) [fame]
• The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. (William Hazlitt) [love/fame/love/goodwill]
• 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) [fame/look/pride]
• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [magic/fame/music]
• Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [fame/thinking]
• He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel. (Samuel Johnson) [fame/happiness/fear/storm]
• The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [fame/men]
• Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. (Doris Lessing) [people/fame]
• Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [fame]
• Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months. (Henry Miller) [fame/thing/oblivion]

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