Best fame & he-man Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.”

Ifs Men Wells Looks May War Dream Light Earth Evil Christ White He Man Victory Battle Fame Red Cease Crowns Mars Vans Stormy Discs White Light Light Of Christ

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.”

Men Dies Wealth Rich He Man Fame Remains Riches Treasure Possessed Rich Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”

Ifs Men Should Soul Age Night Song Fall Tears He Man Poet Sorrow Fame Combat Loved Ones Shed Consumed Weeping Dreary Forsaken Renowned

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam; Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]”

Men Giving Names He Man Fame Give Me

Author:Martial

“Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.”

Men He Man Fame Noise Remembered Honored

Author:Frances Wright

“Give us a man of God's own mould Born to marshall his fellow-men; One whose fame is not bought and sold At the stroke of a politician's pen. Give us the man of thousands ten, Fit to do as well as to plan; Give us a rallying-cry, and then Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.”

Men Giving Wells Born Plans Cry He Man Politician Fit Fame Ten Fellows Pens Strokes Fellow Man Abraham Mould Man Of God Rallying Rallying Cry

Author:Edmund Clarence Stedman

“It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.”

Men Reason He Man Wind Fame Judgment Clouds Contemporary Dust After Death Notoriety

Author:James Russell Lowell

“The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.”

Men Passion He Man Fame Letters Ruling Forlorn Ruling Passion Forlorn Hope

Book:Men and manners: sketches and essays

Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays

“To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.”

Men Has Beens Dies Courses Levels Common Break Fate Dying Objects He Man Fame Glory Hatred Raised Sake Envy Noble Pursue Merit Lasting Usual Submit Strain Posterity Splendor Aversion

Author:Thucydides

“It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]”

Men Said He Man Fame Fingers

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.”

Men Earth Water Air He Man Fame Mark Smoke Obtaining Foam Canopy

Author:Dante Alighieri

“A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.”

Men Mind Talking He Man Fame Delight

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.”

Men Lying He Man Fame Inferno Memories Fade

Book:The divine comedy

Source: The divine comedy

“I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.”

Thinking Men Character Hate Names Imagine He Man Fame I Hate Praise Raises Ruins Imagine That Slander Transplants Prudes

Book:Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

“The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.”

Source: Superstition and Other Essays

“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”

Source: The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

“Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.”

Men Want Known Hell He Man Taste Fame Purgatory

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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