Names are not important. To speak is to name names, but to speak is not important.
Names Quotes
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
It is impossible to mingle in conversation without observing the difficulty with which a new name makes its way into the world. The first appearance of excellence unites multitudes against it; unexpected opposition rises up on every side; the celebrated and the obscure join in the confederacy; subtlety furnishes arms to impudence, and invention leads […]
The name we give to something shapes our attitude to it.
Say anything you like about me, but spell my name right.
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her […]
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
An important art of politcians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
One-way first-name calling always means inequality – witness servants, children, and dogs.
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality.
