Fame quotes

Anonymous

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

Atkins Eileen 1934-

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays „Of Death"

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.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays „Of Praise"

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Dickinson Emily 1830-1886

Fame is a bee
It has a song -
It has a sting -
Ah, too, it has a wing.

Dobson Henry Austin 1840-1921

„Fame is a Food"

Fame is a food that dead men eat, -
I have no stomach for such meat.

Greene Graham 1904-1991

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. 1841-1935

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Lebowitz Fran 1946-

The best fame is a writer's fame; it's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat.

McFee William 1881-1966

One must choose between Obscurity with
Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable
collateral of Bluff.

Mayakovsky Vladimir 1893-1930

„At the Top of my Voice" (translated by C.M. Bowra)

Deploying in a parade the armies of my pages,
I pass in review the front of my lines.
Verses stand lead-heavily, ready for death
and for immortal fame.

Milton John 1608-1674

,,Lycidas"

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorrèd shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

Milton John 1608-1674

„Lycidas"

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Milton John 1608-1674

Samson Agonistes

And though her body die, her fame survives,
A secular bird ages of lives.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

Essays

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Moore Thomas 1779-1852

,,Oh! blame not the bard"

Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers,
Where Pleasure lies, carelessly smiling at Fame.

Pindar Peter 1738-1819

(to the Royal Acedemicians)

What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

The Dunciad

All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to Fame.

Proverbs and Sayings

Rhodesian

A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.

Rilke Rainer Maria 1875-1926

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Schopenhauer Arthur 1788-1860

Fame is something which must be won; honour is  something which must not be lost.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

Idylls of the King „Merlin and Vivien"

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

Fame is a vapour, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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