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.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name, and you must know that it is the name of that particular.
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.
Shakespeare’s name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
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.
