Apr 2, 2010
Quotes by Henry Wadsworth
"Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night".
Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it".
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Feb 10, 2010
Quotes by Thomas Moore
"Go where glory waits thee, But, while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me".
Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows".
Quotes by John Milton
"What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid, Under a starry-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit ... Read More
Jan 27, 2010
Quotes by Edward Young
"One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame".
Quotes by William Wordsworth
"Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade, Of that which once was great is pass'd away".
Quotes by John Wolcot
"What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be d- -d than mentioned not at all!"
Quotes by Andy Warhoi
" In the future everybody ... Read More
Jan 8, 2010
Quotes by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
"Above all [Kennedy] gave the world for an imperishable moment the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility, of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity".
Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
"It is better to be faithful than famous".
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame. If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, ... Read More
Jan 1, 2010
Quotes by James Graham
"I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword".
Quotes by William Ewart Gladstone
"He is the purest figure in history".
Quotes by Thomas Fuller
"The great and the little have need of one another".
Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
"It is a grand mistake of think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous".
Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
"We shouldn't touch our idols: ... Read More
Dec 29, 2009
Quotes by Tacitus
"Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from".
Quotes by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
"So this is the little lady who made this big war".
Quotes by Adlai Stevenson
"Falsity withered in her presence. Hypocrisy left the room...She would rather light candles than curse the darkness".
Quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope
"The fame of a conqueror; a cruel fame, that arises from the destruction of the human species".
Quotes by Edmund Spenser
"Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, On Fame's ... Read More