Famous Quotes

"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."

Moliere on Famous

More quotes about Famous

• "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

  Andy Warhol on Famous

• "I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."

  Walt Disney on Famous

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

  Voltaire on Famous

• "We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous

• "Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."

  Ambrose Bierce on Famous

More quotes by Moliere

• "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."

• "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

• "Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts."

• "There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage."

• "One should eat to live, not live to eat."