Names are not identifiers, only labels for those we identify.
Names Quotes
In a famous family named Stein, There’s Gertrude, there’s Ep and there’s Ein. Gert’s poems are bunk, Ep’s sculpture is junk, And nobody understands Ein.
If Jesus was a Jew, why did he have a Spanish name?
Two names are easier to remember. If you call me by my first name Jonas and I don’t hear you, then when you call me by my second name Jonas maybe I will.
And there are good and great men, no doubt, who put an initial for their first name, but the awful majority of men who do that, will lie, and swindle, and steal, just from a natural instinct.
You have to name it before you can claim it.
A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. (Marquis of Halifax)
God’s name is not considered good at the banks.
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. (Henry IV)
