Desire Quote by Philip Massinger Download Open image “Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.” — Philip Massinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Fame Lasts Men Weakness Wise
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it,… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image