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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Fame is a constant effort. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65326<![CDATA[Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63789<![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15125<![CDATA[The highest form of vanity is love of fame. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15126<![CDATA[Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15127<![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15128<![CDATA[If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15129<![CDATA[The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15130<![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131<![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15132<![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15133<![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15134<![CDATA[Even the best things are not equal to their fame. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15124<![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105<![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15106<![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15107<![CDATA[Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15108<![CDATA[The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15109<![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15110<![CDATA[The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15111<![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15112<![CDATA[Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15114<![CDATA[The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15115<![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15116<![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15117<![CDATA[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15118<![CDATA[Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15119<![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15120<![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15121<![CDATA[Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15122<![CDATA[It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15123<![CDATA[When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15100<![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15101<![CDATA[Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15102<![CDATA[The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15103<![CDATA[To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15104<![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15096<![CDATA[O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15097<![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15098<![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15099<![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15084<![CDATA[A niche in the temple of Fame. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15085<![CDATA[Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15086<![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15087<![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15088<![CDATA[Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile And you shall find that ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15089<![CDATA[Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15090<![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15091<![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15092<![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15093