Quotes on names
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.
Paronen, Samuli
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Daly, Mary
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names..
Proverb
People's fates are simplified by their names.
Canetti, Elias
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
Hazlitt, William
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Haliburton, Thomas C.
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.
Juster, Norton
Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.'
Slawson, David S.
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
Proverb, Japanese
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
Goldsmith, Oliver