Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.
A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead. . . . Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.