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All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well. – Marcus Aurelius	added by anonymous 13 years ago
This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic. – Alexis DeTocqueville	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme. – New Testament	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. – Cullen Hightower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous. – Andy Warhol	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. – Dorothy Parker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. – Alan Alda	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce. – John Pearson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' ' – Al Seckel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. – Simeon Strunsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) – Lucius Accius Telephus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. – Henry Truman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. – Andy Warhol	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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