A Quote by Mark Twain

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain

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Accident Certainty Earthly Fame Oblivion Only Popularity Vapor

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Horace Greeley

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

Horace Greeley

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

Abdul Kalam

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Thomas Carlyle

It never really felt like I had a lot of substance in my life. I had broken up with my former husband (Ron Samuels) and I kind of looked around. I didn't have a lot of friends. I had become isolated by fame. I longed for a family and some substantive relationships. Fame is a vapor. You can't grab hold of it.

Lynda Carter

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Antoine Rivarol

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

Samuel Parris

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

William Hazlitt

It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.