He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
William Drummond

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

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.
Salman Rushdie

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry… just make me feel alive.
Joey Lauren Adams

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

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.
Proverb

Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed,
too.
David McKay

If you love someone, put their name in a circle; because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Thomas C. Haliburton

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.

Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.
Samuli Paronen

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
Elias Canetti

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
Oliver Goldsmith

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
W.H. Auden

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as ‘one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.’
David S. Slawson

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

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.
Thomas Fuller

Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
Japanese Proverb

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Chinese Proverbs

God has many names, though He is only one Being.
Aristotle

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
W. H. Auden

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.
Judith Rich Harris

People’s fates are simplified by their names.
Elias Canetti

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
William Hazlitt

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names..
Proverb

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
Proverb

The thing that a lot of people cannot comprehend is that Mother Nature doesn’t have a bullet with your name on it, she has millions of bullets inscribed with ‘to whom it may concern.

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
Mark Twain

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

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.
G.K. Chesterton

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.
Confucius

They stick you with those names, those labels — �rebel� or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.
Johnny Depp

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don’t seem to suit the person at all.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Words have meaning and names have power.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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.
Victor Hugo

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Mary Daly