Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
RENOWN n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen and drowns things weighty and solid.
For one who has been honored dishonor is worse than death.
Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken and always gets above falsehood as oil does above water.
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
Everybody worships me its nauseating.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten Either write things worthy reading Or do things worth the writing.
The more we do the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Fame like a wayward girl will still be coy To those who woo her with too slavish knees.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesnt know.
Fame lulls the fever of the soul and makes Us feel that we have grasped an immortality.
Im never going to be famous. I dont do anything not one single thing. I used to bite my nails but I dont even do that any more.
What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all!
Fame is but the breath of people And that often unwholesome.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing and for whom you care as little.
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Life is a warfare and a strangers sojourn and after fame is oblivion.
Live by publicity youll probably die by publicity.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing but I couldnt give it up because by then I was too famous.
RENOWN n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Please don?t lie to me unless you?re absolutely sure I?ll never find out the truth.
No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.
If there were no tribulation there would be no rest; if there were no winter there would be no summer.
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real the most brilliant.
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. Im still doing it.
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Fame is the scentless sunflower with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasnt been asleep.
Nor Fame I slight nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for if she comes at all .
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasnt been asleep.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
It is better to have men ask why you have no statue than why you have one.