Names Quotes
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
- William Drummond
Above any Greek or Roman name.
- John Dryden
The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
- Charles Dickens
When you label me,you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
My name is more important than myself.
- Pierre Cardin
We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.
- Desiderius Gerhard
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
- Homer J Simpson
Called me wessel, Sammy a wessel of wrath.
- Charles Dickens
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato
A good name is better than precious ointment.
- Bible
Known by the sobriquet of “The Artful Dodger.”
- Charles Dickens
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
- Mason Cooley
There be of them that have left a name behind them.
- Bible
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
- William Somerset
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
- Mark Twain
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
- Proverb
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
- Leonard Bernstein
The name we give to something shapes our attitude to it.
- Katherine Patterson
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
- William Cowper
I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.
- Pablo Neruda
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their rightful names.
- Thomas Jefferson
Fools’ names, like fools’ faces, Are often seen in public places.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
- Ronald Blythe
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
- English Proverb
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
- Lord Jeffery
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
- Thomas C. Haliburton
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
- Aristophanes
File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
- Peter Collinson
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
- Amiri Baraka
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
- Henry Fielding
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.
- Confucius
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
- Elias Canetti
The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.
- Deborah Boliver
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, what are they?
- Anonymous
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
In England, I’m a horror movie director. In Germany, I’m a filmmaker. In the United States, I’m a bum.
- John Carpenter
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
- Edward F. Halifax


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