Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. Christian Nestell Bovee
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. Buddha
O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. Lord Byron
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. Sebastian Chamfort
How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog! Emily Dickinson
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. Hare and Charles
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