A celebrity is a person who works hard
all his life to become well known, then wears
dark glasses to avoid being recognised.
?Fred Allen
The fame you earn has a different taste
from the fame that is forced upon you.
?Gloria Vanderbilt
Fame is like a river, that beareth up
things light and swollen, and
drowns things weighty and solid.
?Francis Bacon
What is fame? The advantage of being
known by people of whom you yourself know
nothing, and for whom you care as little.
?Leszczynski Stanislaus
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and
the truth of those not to be depended on.
?Christian Nestell Bovee
The charm of fame is so great that
we like every object to which
it is attached, even death.
?Blaise Pascal
In the very books in which philosophers bid
us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
?Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lives of great men all remind us
we can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind us
footprints on the sands of time.
?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead,
but of the living. It is we who look back with
lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
?William Hazlitt
Fame is only good for one thing-
they will cash your check in a small town.
?Truman Capote
A celebrity is one who is known to many
persons he is glad he doesn't know.
?Henry Louis Mencken
Fame always brings loneliness.
Success is as ice cold and
lonely as the North Pole.
?Vicki Baum
Fame is not just. She never finely or
discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
?Henry David Thoreau
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a
person as people say I am, because the
world could use a few people like that.
?Alan Alda
