Accident Quote by Horace Greeley

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

— Mark Twain

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, and riches take wings.”

— Jordan Christy

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures -…

— Anonymous

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

— Edward Young

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

— James Grainger

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

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

— Antoine Rivarol

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

— Sallust

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

— Francis Bacon

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

— Anna Brownell Jameson