Community Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise:…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

— James Grainger

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

— Anonymous

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

— Sallust

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

— Franz Grillparzer

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

— Ouida

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

— Mary MacLane

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

— Socrates

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

Friendship is a bouquet of roses blooming into your life

— Anonymous

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

— Alexander Pope