Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb Category: Names
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius Category: Names
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. – Thomas C. Haliburton Category: Names
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy. – Michel de Montaigne Category: Devotion
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. – Virginia Woolf Category: Money
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. – Edgar Quinet Category: Infinity
