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 2. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

 3. All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

 4. All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

 5. And what after all is everlasting fame? All together vanity All fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame.

 6. And what is Fame? the Meanest have their Day, The Greatest can but blaze, and pass away.

 7. Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

 8. Away! to me -a woman- bring Sweet water from affection's spring.

 9. Celebrity is the chastisement of meritand the punishment of talent.

10. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

11. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

12. Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

13. Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

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

15. Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

16. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitableas destiny, for it is destiny.

17. Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

18. Fame is a bee It has a song- It has a sting- Ah, too, it has a wing.

19. Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today will curse tomorrow, only one thing endures - character.

20. Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow.

21. Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

22. Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

23. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

24. Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

25. Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

26. Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last part, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

27. Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living.

28. Fame is the penalty of success.

29. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

30. Fame is the thirst of youth.

31. Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give.

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

33. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

34. Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

35. Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such:it is an accident, not a property of a man.

36. Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

37. Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

38. Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

39. Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

40. Glory, like a shadow, flieth from him who pursueth it; but it followeth at the heels of him who would fly from it; if thou courtest it without merit, thou shalt never attainunto it; if thou deservest it, though thou hidest thyself,it will never forsake thee.

41. Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

42. He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit,has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but theleaks of his vessel.

43. He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

44. How men long for celebrity! Some would willingly sacrifice their lives for fame, and not a few would rather be known by their crimes than not known at all.

45. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

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

47. Illusion is an element which enters into all finite things, for everything that exists has only a relative, not anabsolute, reality, since the appearance which the hidden phenomenon assumes for any observer depends upon his power of cognition.

48. It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

49. It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you,for it was the illusion they loved.

50. It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."

51. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

52. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.

53. Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue.

54. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Foot prints on the sands of time.

55. Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

56. Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

57. 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.

58. Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest;when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

59. Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead...

60. Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness.

61. Riches: A dream in the night...Fame: A gull floating on water.

62. She (Fame) walks on the earth, and her head is concealed in the clouds.

63. The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

64. The dog barks; the Caravan passes.

65. The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.

66. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

67. The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things.

68. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

69. The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

70. The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

71. The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

72. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

73. The veil of illusion cannot be lifted by a mere decision of reason, but demands the most thorough going and persevering preparation consisting in the full payment of all debts to life.

74. 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 them- selves, but they are like heat haze.

75. There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

76. There is no less danger from great fame than from infamy.

77. There is not in the world so toil some a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

78. Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame! A draught that mantles high, And seems to lift this earthly frameAbove mortality.

79. Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human thoughts.

80. Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

81. True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

82. True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

83. What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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

85. What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath.

86. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

87. Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

88. Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.