Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden Category: Names
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius Category: Names
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti Category: Names
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt Category: Names
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage. – Kate Adie Category: Marriage
In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled. – George Papandreou Category: Politics
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. – Jean Kerr Category: Alcohol
