Names Quotes & Sayings
These names quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. - Plato
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. - Wystan Hugh Auden
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, 'just in case,' in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Oxford: Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. - Matthew Arnold
If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist. - Albert Einstein
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all. - Krzysztof Kieslowski
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. - Samuel Johnson