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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument
than why I have one.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument
than why I have one.
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some read more
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some liken it to climbing up a hill,
Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:
For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,
And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"
To have, when the original is dust,
A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost
lost that built it.
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost
lost that built it.
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance read more
Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.
Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty read more
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.
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.
