Accidents Quote by Anonymous

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

— Horace Greeley

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

— Horace Greeley

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings.”

— Jordan Christy

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”

— Dennis Kimbro

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

— Francis Bacon

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

— Mark Twain

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

— John Milton

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's…

— Bruce Springsteen

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows…

— Emily Atack

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all,…

— Thomas Fuller