Archive

Quotes

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

—Voltaire, 1723

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BC

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

—E. R. Dodds, 1951

Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

—Davy Crockett, 1834

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

—Pericles, c. 450 BC

I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

—Madonna, c. 1985
  •