Josh Billings Quotes

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

History will treat me right.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

It's about legacy, it's about moments, it's about being an icon - I'll do what I do and the money will flow.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

Everybody makes money; not everybody makes history.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

It doesn't worry me how I'm remembered.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

I just want to be rich and famous.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

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

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

I want to go down in history.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.