Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.
Popularity is not leadership.
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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