Epitaph Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epitaph Fame Late Truth
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 Copy Share Image
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.' — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
