1. The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself-Oscar Wilde
2. The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.-Bette Davis
3. Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.-Lauren Bacall
4. Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.-Joyce Johnson
5. At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.-Michael Scott
6. Legend remains victorious in spite of history.-Sarah Bernhardt
7. Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.-Aleksandar Hemon
8. And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.-Richard Matheson
9. Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.-Paulo Coelho
10. Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.-Helen Hayes
11. Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.-Hervey Allen
12. Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age…-HL Mencken
13. Legends don’t have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.-Terry Pratchett
14. You don’t need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for ten minutes a day.-Caitlin Moran
15. A legend is an old man with a cane.-Miles Davis
16. Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries… endures for a reason.-Dan Brown
17. To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.-Nalini Singh
18. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.-Robert Wuhl
19. You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.-Isabel Allende
20. Legends are not born–they are created.-Ricky Pierce
21. You can’t become legendary if you have no energy.-Robin Sharma
22. Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.-Salman Rushdie
23. Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave.-Kathryn Lasky
24. Legends that endure in the future…were events that took place in the distant past.-Eiichiro Oda
25. Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.-Adrien Rouquette
26. Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.-Kobe Bryant
27. All legends have a base in fact.-David Gemmell