Name Quotes

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Experience, the name men give to their mistakes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. View quote
Woody Allen
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Tolerance is only another name for indifference. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. View quote
Oliver Herford
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. View quote
Joe Frazier
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' (Edgar Allan Poe)
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor. View quote
Emil Cioran
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. View quote
Emil Cioran
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. View quote
William Cobbett
I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great. View quote
Bryan Ferry
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? View quote
Lily Tomlin
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. View quote
José Saramago
It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. View quote
Stephen Leacock
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. View quote
Luis Buñuel
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (William Shakespeare)
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. View quote
Bill Cosby
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. View quote
John Lennon
The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority - that of time. View quote
William Hazlitt
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