Names Quotes
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Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. (Quote by - Samuli Paronen)
Above any Greek or Roman name. (Quote by - John Dryden)
God has many names, though He is only one Being. (Quote by - Aristotle)
People's fates are simplified by their names. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. (Quote by - Stephen Vincent Benet)
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. (Quote by - Thomas Chandler Haliburton)
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. (Quote by - Dennis Frakes)
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. (Quote by - Bible)
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. (Quote by - Proverb)
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. (Quote by - Deborah Boliver Boehm)
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
We do what we must, and call it by the best names. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. (Quote by - John Carpenter)
Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill! (Quote by - Eugene Field)
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. (Quote by - Confucius)
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here." (Quote by - Count Basie)
And we were angry and poor and happy,And proud of seeing our names in print. (Quote by - G.K. Chesterton)
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. (Quote by - Proverb)
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this. (Quote by - Madonna)
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. (Quote by - Bible)
Brooks of Sheffield: "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. (Quote by - Bill Vaughn)
Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless. (Quote by - Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth)
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word. - Thomas Haynes Bayly, (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. (Quote by - Bible)
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. (Quote by - Plato)
The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people. (Quote by - Judith Rich Harris)
Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.' (Quote by - David S. Slawson)
A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. (Quote by - English proverb)
Whose name was writ in water! What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought! Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after, High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught! "All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said, And Dante nodded his imperial head. (Quote by - Richard Watson Gilder)
He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. (Quote by - Mary Daly)
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name! (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked. (Quote by - William Cowper)
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. (Quote by - Edward F. Halifax)
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all. (Quote by - Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Call a spade a spade. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing. (Quote by - John Dalberg Acton)
And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
The dodgerest of all the dodgers. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it. (Quote by - Pat Day)
I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. (Quote by - Bible)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A good name is better than precious ointment. (Quote by - Bible)
My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. (Quote by - Richard Watson Gilder)
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. (Quote by - Ian Williams)
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. (Quote by - Mel Brooks)
We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
Named softly as the household name of one whom God had taken. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
There be of them that have left a name behind them. (Quote by - Bible)
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. (Quote by - Thomas Love Peacock)
I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade. (Quote by - Humphrey Gifford)
File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters. (Quote by - Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System")
Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book. (Quote by - Ronald Blythe)
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
