Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
- Bovee, Christian Nestell

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.
- Byron, Lord

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
- Chamfort, Sebastian

How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!
- Dickinson, Emily

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.
- Hazlitt, William

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
- Martial

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
- Mencken, H.L.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.
- Miller, Joaquin

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
- Shakespeare, William

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
- Stanislaus, Leszczynski

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
- Thoreau, Henry David