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“I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just - there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just - it is a Cinderella story to me.”

Wanted Poor Wife Grew Fame Grew Up My Family Fortune Come Up No Money

Author:Anna Nicole Smith

“A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.”

Men Money Wife Birth Fame Fairs Lips Tongue Settling Heavenly Persuasion Venus Dames

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.”

“In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.”

States Mother Careers Wife Fame Female Beloved Ties Prize Obscure Beloved Wife

Author:Jane Porter

“How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.”

Men Hate Waiting Wife Fame Husband Clothes Glory Shops Trinkets

Author:Bill Vaughan

“You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.”

Should Children Realizing Wife Fame Married Fortune Prize Consolation Happy Children Consolation Prize Loving Wife

Author:Emo Philips

“Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.”

Ifs Children Stills Lying Names Belief Lost Wife Truth Is Fame Devil Profit Penalties

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.”

Littles Facts Politics Wife Minutes Fame My Wife Surprising

Author:Barack Obama

“I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.”

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Author:Michael Chabon

“I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.”

Mother Wife Fame Daughter Our Daughter Happy Wife

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.”

Two Science Wife Fame Biographies

Author:Alexander III of Russia