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.