The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Thomas Fuller

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Bodhidharma

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
John Fahey

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
John Fahey

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

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. Milne

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Michel de Montaigne

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
Billy Connolly