| "FAME to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. FAME should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "All is ephemeral,--FAME and the famous as well." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "FAME is proof that people are gullible." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "To be occasionally quoted is the only FAME I care for." »Alexander Smith |
| "FAME is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "He who pursues FAME at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar." »Chuang-tzu |
| "Don't cling to FAME. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it." »Sonny Bono |
| "Rather than love, than money, than FAME, give me truth." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Don't confuse FAME with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other." »Erma Bombeck |
| "The hall of FAME ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July." »Ralph Kiner |
| "The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of FAME. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the FAME that comes after is oblivion." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "FAME is like walkin on the Beach.... every step, whether right or wrong, leaves its imprint." »Siddharth Astir |
| "Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and FAME." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Neither genius, FAME, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that." »Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire |
| "Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of FAME 5 years in a row." »Ralph Kiner |
| "It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's FAME." »Orison Swett Marden |
| "It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the 92 million Rock & Roll Hall of FAME)" »Aretha Franklin |
| "Talent is God given. Be humble. FAME is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." »John Wooden |
| "FAME is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of FAME." »MG Siriam |
| "Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose FAME makes his misfortunes famous.)" »Lucius Accius Telephus |
| "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting FAME, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." »M. Cartmill |
| "A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of FAME and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well." »Oliver Herford |
| "The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or FAME it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land." »Scott Russell Sanders |
| "Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and FAME.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of FAME and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty." »Francis Bacon |
| "But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of FAME fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette." »James Grover Thurber |
| "The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our FAME, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't." »Andrew Schneider |
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