Quotes
Quotes about Name
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month-- Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman-- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she-- O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
I've outdone anyone you can nameâMozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
Better to see the face than to hear the name.
A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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,
A good name is better than precious ointment.
There be of them that have left a name behind them.
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.
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. [Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom; J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.]
