Famous Quotes

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

South

The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.

Bible

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Author Unknown

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius, Telephus

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)

Not many people know this... but I happen to be famous.

Sam Malone, Cheers

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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Joe Bob Briggs

All is ephemeral, - - Fame and the famous as well.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Dickens

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius Telephus

Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

In the future everyone will be world - Famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol