The repository contains 15 quotes in the category “Fame.”
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
1809 — 1894
Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.
Kevin Bacon
1958 —
The day they stop making fun of you is the day they don’t give a damn about you.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
1925 — 1990
If fame comes after death, then I’m in no hurry for it.
Martial
1040? — 103?
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 — 1821
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe
1900 — 1938
After I am dead I would rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder
234 — 149 B.C.
In public life it is sometimes necessary in order to appear really natural to be actually artificial.
President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and then slip quietly away.
Tom Brokaw
1940 —
A successful author is equally in danger of the dimunition of his fame whether he continues or ceases to write.
Dr. Johnson
1709 — 1784
You’d be amazed at the number of people who want to introduce themselves to you in the men’s room.
Senator John Kerry
1943 —
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette: the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
President John Tyler
1790 — 1862
A celebrity is one known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
