Fame

Famous quotes containing the word fame:

“I see my reputation is at stake,
My fame is shrewdly gored.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,
Fair Science frown’d not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark’d him for her own.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)