Quotes about Names

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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."- John F. Kennedy

"My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time."- Richard Watson Gilder

"A good name is rather to be chosen than riches."- Solomon

"To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary."- Erica Jong

"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry."- Bill Cosby

"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."- Evelyn Waugh

"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."- Elbert Hubbard

"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things."- Oscar Wilde

"If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone."- Henry David Thoreau

"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers."- Marshall McLuhan

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."- William Shakespeare

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."- Margaret Atwood

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."- Confucius

"People's fates are simplified by their names."- Elias Canetti

"I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat."- Stephen Vincent Benet

"And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print."- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"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."- Lord Byron

"The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot."- Henry Fielding

"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."- Madonna Ciccone

"I confused things with their names: that is belief."- Jean-Paul Sartre

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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