Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds
Socrates
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
Vanna Bonta
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.
Laura Welch Bush
You can't get un-famous. You can get infamous, but you can't get un-famous.
David Khari Webber Chappelle
When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.
Billy Childish
Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
Vanna Bonta
In the march up to the heights of fame, there comes a spot close to the summit in which a man reads nothing but detective stories.
Heywood Broun
Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it's this thing now that stands on its own. I don't think one should ever aspire to being famous.
Madonna Louise Ciccone