Names

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. – Thomas C. Haliburton

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan

Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. – Samuli Paronen

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. – Proverb

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb

Words have meaning and names have power. – Author Unknown

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. – Terri Guillemets

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. – Mary Daly