Famous quotes containing the word fame:
“I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535475 B.C.)
“Alas I find the Serpent old
That, twining in his speckled breast,
About the flowrs disguisd does fold,
With wreaths of Fame and Interest.”
—Andrew Marvell (16211678)
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