“Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.”
Drew Karpyshyn book Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Source: Path of Destruction
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“T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.”
Nathaniel Lee The Rival Queens
Act iv., Sc. 2. In stage editions, it is "Leads the way" with various interpolations, among them—
See the conquering hero comes!
Sound the trumpet, beat the drums!—
which was first used by Handel in "Joshua," and afterwards transferred to "Judas Maccabæus." The text of both oratorios was written by Dr. Thomas Morell, a clergyman.
The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)
“Some poor fool has been saying in his heart
Glory is out of date in life and art.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Dedication (1960)
Context: Everyone knows the glory of the twain
Who gave America the aeroplane
To ride the whirlwind and the hurricane.
Some poor fool has been saying in his heart
Glory is out of date in life and art.
Our venture in revolution and outlawry
Has justified itself in freedom's story
Right down to now in glory upon glory.
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
The Purpose of Life, p. 53
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002)
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
As quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
Sometimes attributed to Ackerman this actually originates with Nicolas Chamfort, as quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
Misattributed
“To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Comment on the Union of Orthodox Rabbis after expelling a rabbi because of his disbelief in God as a personal entity.
Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein's God (1997)
“In blaming others, fools their folly show,
And most attempt to speak when least they know.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book XXVIII, line 7
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)