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Fleeting Quotes by Sallust
- The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
- The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
- The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
- The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
More Fleeting Quotes
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
- 'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting… — Andrea Bocelli
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced… — Andre Breton
- Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be?… — Kobe Bryant
- The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens,… — Julie Burchill
- To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a… — Fred Allen
- Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. — Tori Amos