Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.
As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, "Yes!"
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.
Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.
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