A Quote by Theresa Villiers

A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

Theresa Villiers

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After After Death Both Death Equally Fame Grow Most

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Theresa Villiers
British - Politician
Born: March 5, 1968

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

Henry David Thoreau

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

Cate Blanchett

What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.

Jack Welch

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Marcus Valerius Martial

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Aeschylus

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

Eleanor Catton

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

George Herbert

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

Saint Augustine

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

Martial

One mans cult is another mans religion.

Annie Parisse

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

Mary Butts

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

Kinky Friedman

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

Thornton Wilder

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

Joyce Cary

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.