And there are good and great men, no doubt, who put an initial for their first name, but the awful majority of men who do that, will lie, and swindle, and steal, just from a natural instinct.
Names Quotes
You have to name it before you can claim it.
A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. (Marquis of Halifax)
God’s name is not considered good at the banks.
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. (Henry IV)
Acts of grace cannot be reversed. God blots out his people’s sins, but not their names.
If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly […]
Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers and can call them all by their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis. (Henry IV)
