I'll make thee famous by my pen
And glorious by my sword. [ Marquis of Montrose ]

I awoke one morning and found myself famous. [ Byron ]

Great vices, as well as great virtues, make men famous. [ Proverb ]

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. [ Beaconsfield ]

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous! [ Voltaire ]

There are people who are almost in love, almost famous, and almost happy. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. [ Francis I ]

One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die. [ C. N. Bovee ]

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. [ Goethe ]

Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer. [ James Hamilton ]

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 ]

To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. [ Addison ]

If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms. [ Holmes ]