Name Quotes

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.[Lo único peor que la mala salud es la mala fama.]

What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

The name of the game was to win, and you won by beating everyone else.

So long as we remember names, so long those people live.

One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.

Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life.

Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.

Never pick yourself a name you can’t scrub the floor in.

Names mattered more than the gender, more than tradition, more than whatever sounded nice. A name defined a person – or in his case, a dog. It was a personal flag one waved the rest of one’s life; it had to be right. Like his name, which he’d had to wait more than a year to receive.