"What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism."

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"What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism."

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"Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Fame, Misunderstanding, Reputation, Name

"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Fame, Achievement, Recognition, Identity

"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Fame, Time, Recognition, Hope

"I am your number one fan."

Stephen King, American Author

Fame, Obsession, Power, Love, Emotion

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Fame, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational, Wisdom

"When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned."

Lee Haney, American Athlete

Fame, Ladies, Old, Saying

"When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about."

Jamal Lewis, American Athlete

Fame, Name, Want

"Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?"

William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician

Fame,

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Fame, Thinking

"The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind."

Dominique Wilkins, French Athlete

Fame, Mind

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"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them."

Woman, Women, Women

"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."

Reflection, Giving, Mind, Rank

"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."

War,

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

Food, Money, Books, Clothes

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie."

Lie, Will

"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."

Knowledge, Deception, Folly, Ignorance, Illusion

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

Age, Kiss, Babies, Enemy

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

Habit,

"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."

Opportunity, Blind, Country, Man

"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."

Criticism, Reputation