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My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next are. - Francis Bacon 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 (Bayley), Melodies of Various Nations--Oh! No! We Never Mention Her A good name is better than precious ointment. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) (ch. VII, v. 1) There be of them that have left a name behind them. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) (ch. XLIV, v. 8) 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. - Bible, Malachi (ch. IV, v. 2) And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. - Bible, Mark (ch. V, v. 9) A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 1) 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.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Satires (I, 51) Named softly as the household name of one whom God had taken. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Call a spade a spade. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritis Junior to the Reader (p. 11) 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. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto V, st. 4) On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 399) He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Corsair (canto III, st. 24) Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. - Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 5) To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort 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. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, What's in a Name Oh! never breathe a dead one's name, When those who lov'd that one are nigh; It pours a lava through the frame That chokes the breast and fills the eye. - Eliza Cook Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked. - William Cowper, Task (bk. VI, l. 101) Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." - Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (ch. 8) The dodgerest of all the dodgers. - Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (ch. XIII) "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. - Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. 2) Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. - Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXII) He lives who dies to win a lasting name. - William Drummond (1), Sonnet (XII) Above any Greek or Roman name. - John Dryden, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (l. 76) We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.] - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Colloquy--Philetymus et Pseudocheus Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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