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Fame Quotes by Robert Burns
- Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
- Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld…
- Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
More Fame Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
- Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not… — Francis Bacon
- Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. — Kevin Bacon
- I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could… — Lloyd Banks
- I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. — Tyra Banks
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I… — George Matthew Adams
- Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all… — George Matthew Adams
- I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. — Brigitte Bardot