Fame is the advantage of being known by 20 people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

I, knowing naught, am free from blame.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

White Fang knew nothing about fire.
— from White Fang by Jack London

" Then he cried to his horses, "Xanthus and Podargus, and you Aethon and goodly Lampus, pay me for your keep now and for all the honey-sweet corn with which Andromache daughter of great Eetion has fed you, and for she has mixed wine and water for you to drink whenever you would, before doing so even for me who am her own husband.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And also we have a p. 194 king, not only for to do justice to every man, for he shall find no forfeit among us; but for to keep noblesse, and for to shew that we be obeissant, we have a king.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

kumbira n a feast, sumptuous party.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But I knew nothing about fashionable people, and cared less; therefore how should I attempt to describe fashionable life?
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

Here comes Mrs. Smith, or Jones, who is known near and far as a good butter maker.
— from ABC Butter Making: A Hand-Book for the Beginner by Frederick S. Burch

My duty is simply confined to representing to you the state of things that exists, and, indeed, in that respect I know that I am doing what is entirely unnecessary, for the state of the County Kerry now, and for a period of five or six years, in all its essential features, is known far beyond the limits of the county, to every single person in the country.
— from The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Samuel Murray Hussey

But of this she could know nothing, and for that reason there existed no association, in her mind, to connect it with the crime which the Prophet seemed resolved to bring to light.
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

These are the considerations that have in fluenced me to co-operate with the life extension movement, and to commend this volume to the earnest consideration of all who desire authoritative guidance in improving their own physical condition or in making effective the knowledge now available for bringing health and happiness to our people.
— from How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher

[128] I have known not a few among that irritable class who, no sooner had they sipped the most meagre draught of fame, than they became intoxicated with their own importance, and for the balance of life wooed that meretricious goddess, Notoriety.
— from Down at Caxton's by William A. McDermott

They will keep near a flock of wild hogs, for the purpose of seizing the stragglers, but cautiously avoid being surrounded by them.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 07 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

I have known not a few humble men in the pulpit of whom rather than write such a thing Donal would have lost the writing hand.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

He had never heard of Knapps Narrows a few days before, or of Tilghman Island, where the Narrows were located.
— from The Flying Stingaree: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

Afterwards, through lack of attention in Spain in providing for the administration of justice for which we waited, and finding, as was publicly known, that the Judge who was coming would be disposed only to add to our troubles and forlorn condition, and would not afford us justice (as he had been appointed through the influence of that warm befriender of the Pachacama party, Cardinal Loaysa) and seeing that we were denied on all sides the justice we had so long been expecting, it pleased God to lift the veil from his hidden judgments and, that they might be known now and for ever, to let the Marquis pay with his life for the death which through his cruelty and that of his traitor brother had been inflicted on my father.
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León