Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. – Chinese Proverb
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny. – Proverb
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. – Joseph Addison
Its too bad Im not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. – Alan Alda
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. – Alexander The Great
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred A. Allen
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. – W. H. Auden
Life is a warfare and a strangers sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. – Marcus Aurelius
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. – Vicki Baum
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesars laurel crown. – William Blake
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. – William Blake
Youre not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi. – Humphrey Bogart
Popular applause veers with the wind. – John Bright
In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories. – Heywood Hale Broun
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. – Sir Thomas Browne
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. – Jean De La Bruyere
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 George Bulwer-Lytton
I awoke one morning and found myself famous. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
