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Oh! no! we never mention her,
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly,
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: Melodies of Various Nations--Oh! No! We Never Mention Her
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A good name is better than precious ointment.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. VII, v. 1)
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There be of them that have left a name behind them.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XLIV, v. 8)
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But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow
up as calves of the stall.
Author: Bible
Source: Malachi (ch. IV, v. 2)
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And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My
name is Legion: for we are many.
Author: Bible
Source: Mark (ch. V, v. 9)
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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving
favour rather than silver and gold.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 1)
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I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat
a cat, and Rollet a rogue.
[Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom;
J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: Satires (I, 51)
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Call a spade a spade.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritis Junior to the Reader (p. 11)
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He left a Corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Corsair (canto III, st. 24)
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I have a passion for the name of "Mary,"
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,
Where I beheld what never was to be.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 4)
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On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 399)
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Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 5)
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Ah! replied my gentle fair,
Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou, whatever suits the line:
Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
Call me Lalage, or Doris,
Only, only, call me thine.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: What's in a Name
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Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 101)
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Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Oliver Twist (ch. 8)
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The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Our Mutual Friend (ch. XIII)
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"Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the
gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know.
"Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to
find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really
thought that it was I.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. 2)
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Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. 22)
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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
Author: William Drummond (1)
Source: Sonnet (XII)
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Above any Greek or Roman name.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (l. 76)
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We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.
[Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: Colloquy--Philetymus et Pseudocheus
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The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot,
And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: Amelia (II, 9)
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I cannot say the crow is white,
But needs must call a spade a spade.
Author: Humphrey Gifford
Source: A Woman's Face is Full of Wiles
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"Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter
Among the immortals when that word was brought!
Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after,
High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught!
"All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said,
And Dante nodded his imperial head.
Author: Richard Watson Gilder
Source: Keats
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My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.
Author: Richard Watson Gilder
Source: Keats
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
Author: W. H. Auden
Source: None
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.
Author: Deborah Boliver Boehm
Source: None
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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum.
Author: John Carpenter
Source: None
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Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
Author: Dennis Frakes
Source: None
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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
Author: Edward F. Halifax
Source: None
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
Author: Madonna
Source: None
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
Author: Ian Williams
Source: None
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Author: Plato
Source: None
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Author: Bill Vaughn
Source: None
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File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
Author: Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
Source: None
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Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Source: None
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The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Author: Margaret Atwood
Source: None
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I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.
Author: Martina Navratilova
Source: None
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I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."
Author: Count Basie
Source: None
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I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
Author: Josephine Baker
Source: None
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Author: Mel Brooks
Source: None
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Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
Author: Ronald Blythe
Source: None
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Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.
Author: John Dalberg Acton
Source: None
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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton
Source: None
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Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
Author: Dennis Frakes
Source: None
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