“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.” WantedPoorWifeGrewFameGrew UpMy FamilyFortuneCome UpNo 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.” MenMoneyWifeBirthFameFairsLipsTongueSettlingHeavenlyPersuasionVenusDames 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.” MenPersonsThreeKnownEconomyWifeFameAccountsAffairFoolishWitKingdomsIgnorantMinistersSettlingServantCowardCouncilCunningDistinguishedCheatedValorInconsistencyPublic AffairsDunces Author:Horace Walpole
“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.” StatesMotherCareersWifeFameFemaleBelovedTiesPrizeObscureBeloved 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.” MenHateWaitingWifeFameHusbandClothesGloryShopsTrinkets 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.” ShouldChildrenRealizingWifeFameMarriedFortunePrizeConsolationHappy ChildrenConsolation PrizeLoving 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.” IfsChildrenStillsLyingNamesBeliefLostWifeTruth IsFameDevilProfitPenalties Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley