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He lives who dies to win a lasting name. (Quote by - William Drummond)

Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. (Quote by - Samuli Paronen)

Above any Greek or Roman name. (Quote by - John Dryden)

God has many names, though He is only one Being. (Quote by - Aristotle)

People's fates are simplified by their names. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. (Quote by - Stephen Vincent Benet)

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. (Quote by - Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. (Quote by - Dennis Frakes)

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)

Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. (Quote by - Bible)

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. (Quote by - Proverb)

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. (Quote by - Deborah Boliver Boehm)

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. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

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

I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. (Quote by - John Carpenter)

Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill! (Quote by - Eugene Field)

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

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