Coffins Quote by Alexander Smith

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

— Socrates

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

— Henry Van Dyke

“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.”

— Peter Duncan

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great…

— William Hazlitt

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard…

— Henry Mackenzie

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Often they descended to their grave with an ironic smile – for what was there left of them to bury! Only the dross, refuse,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the…

— Himmilicious

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to…

— Charles Caleb Colton