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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Friedrich von Schiller
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Marquis de Sade
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Desiderius Erasmus
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Don Johnson
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Homer
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Sir Winston Churchill
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
Davy Crockett
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
Gloria Swanson
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
To many fame comes too late.
Luis De Camoens
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann von Goethe
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.
Henry Miller
