"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
— Francis Bacon
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some…
— Kevin Bacon
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame…
— Lloyd Banks
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
— Tyra Banks
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone…
— George Matthew Adams
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
— Brigitte Bardot
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