A Quote by Donald E. Williams, Jr.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

Donald E. Williams, Jr.

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Eternal Fame Fleeting Riches Stupidity

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Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Lawyer
Born: July 1, 1957

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

Johnny Cash

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

Debbie Allen

Eternal life is the most important thing in all the world for which you and I should work and hope someday to attain. . . . the person who attains eternal life is exceedingly rich. Seek not for riches but for wisdom. . . . . . . he that hath eternal life is rich. Eternal life is the greatest of all of the gifts of God.

Milton R. Hunter

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Nelson Rodrigues

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

Tracy Morgan

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

Joe Johnston

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

Jerold Panas

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Tennessee Williams

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

Vera Rubin

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

John Wooden

I think fame is hard in any capacity. It's so fleeting; it's not anything that you can really grab.

Melissa Rauch

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure seekers; however, seeking pleasure from the objects of our five senses produces fleeting moments of pleasure whereas, pleasure of one's self, a soul, is eternal and ever-increasing pleasure.