“What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.” YearsTwoRealDivineThousandFameHighestEternityCriticsEndureThousand YearsWretchedRhetoricalRenown Author:Thomas Carlyle
“Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.” NeedsHandsPathFeetGreatnessFameEternityLips Author:Philip Larkin
“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.” MayBookGraceHonorFameRedEternityBreathsEdgesSpiteEndeavorHuntsDisgraceTombsHeirsBrazenDevouringScythes Author:William Shakespeare
“I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?” ShouldWellsBookAgeHeavenBrainStudyFameEternityFilledDelightRichesMortalsMortalityAnxiousShould IChamberArchangel Author:William Blake
“Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.” WorldKindLittlesMotherGirlNamesWaitingPresidentBoysStreetsFameMountainTrainingEternityArmyHallsEgyptPotatoesMosesEmperorBeing A MotherSweepingHall Of Fame Author:Billy Sunday
“Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.” LyingFameEternityPhilosopherDeedsGood DeedsKnightsEssayistsKnighthood Author:Dejan Stojanovic