3,604 Quotes About Names

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.