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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony read more
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
Everything popular is wrong.
Everything popular is wrong.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of read more
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.