Fame

(245 votes)   Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(230 votes)   My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(224 votes)   I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(198 votes)   Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(178 votes)   What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(171 votes)   If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(168 votes)   I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(157 votes)   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
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(153 votes)   How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great
352-323 BC, Alexander III, Ancient Macedonian King

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(134 votes)   Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-, American Historian

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(127 votes)   A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

Marilyn Monroe
1926-, American Actress

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(116 votes)   The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol
1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker

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(111 votes)   Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(103 votes)   Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(91 votes)   Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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