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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous you are, the more free presents you get. And invitations to really amazing things.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

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

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

Fame is cool but I believe in success.

Fame is directly related to the kind of support you have from an audience and the love and support I have from audience is so immense and so huge, that the percentage of negativity is so small compared to that that it would be very easy for it to lose itself.

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.