List Of Proverbs About Names
Sayings about Names
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~ Japanese Proverb
You know a person by his nickname. ~ French Proverb
Don’t think back on someone whose name you forgot, he is probably someone else by now. ~ Malawian Proverb
The name of Love’s fiance is Divorce. ~ Indonesian Proverb
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~ Traditional Proverb
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday. ~ Irish Proverb
A person with a bad name is already half-hanged. ~ Traditional Proverb
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. ~ English Proverbs
A good name reaches far but a bad one reaches farther. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
Beloved children have many names. ~ Hungarian Proverb
Don’t give a child a name until after it is born. ~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb
A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill. ~ Scottish Proverbs
A change of name or place may sometimes save a person. ~ Hebrew Proverb
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. ~ Biblical Proverb
Words have meaning and names have power. ~ Traditional Proverb
A good name is a second inheritance. ~ German Proverbs
He who leaves a good name does not die poor. ~ Norwegian Proverb
Only when the coffin is closed will we see how long lasting is the name. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Better to see the face than to hear the name. ~ Traditional Proverb
Before you beat the dog, find out the name of his master. ~ Chinese Proverb
A bad son gives his mother a bad name. ~ Ivorian Proverb
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. ~ Chinese Proverb
They ate our food, and forgot our names. ~ Tunisian Proverbs
Go not in and out of court that thy name may not stink. ~ Anii Proverb
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. ~ Traditional Proverb
Whoever knows how to use a pen never adds his own name to the “guilty” list. ~ Arabian Proverb
The river may dry up but she keeps her name. ~ Nigerian Proverb
A good name is better than precious ointment. ~ Biblical Proverb
Give a dog a tasty name and eat him. ~ Chinese Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. ~ Chinese Proverb
Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue. ~ Latin Proverbs
No names, no pack-drill. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Names
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. ~ Mortimer Adler
God is the name we give our conscience. ~ Nader Shureih
The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name. ~ Sophia Amoruso
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F. Kennedy Quotes
I would rather make my name than inherit it. ~ William M Thackeray
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ~ Salman Rushdie
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. ~ Julius Caesar Quotes
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
A good name is more desirable than great riches. ~ Bible
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. ~ Francis Jeffrey
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. ~ Leo Tolstoy
The invisible thing called a good name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. ~ Edward F. Halifax
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. ~ Alexander the Great
I don’t like giving names to generations. It’s like trying to read the song title on a record that’s spinning. ~ Ian Williams
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. ~ Henri Poincare
He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ~ Henry Drummond
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. ~ Bible
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached. ~ Ramakrishna
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ~ Jim Morrison
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say “I have done my best,” then you are a success. ~ Ann Landers
We do what we must, and call it by the best names. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It’s a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others. ~ Elizabeth Drew
He said true things, but called them by wrong names. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sometimes all the ‘marketing’ insight in the world can’t move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea! ~ George Lois
People’s fates are simplified by their names. ~ Elias Canetti
A good name is better than precious ointment. ~ Bible
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ~ William Cowper
So, our life, in acts exemplary, not only wins ourselves good names, but doth to others give matter for virtuous deeds by which we live. ~ John Jay Chapman
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names. ~ Chespirito
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there. ~ Paris Hilton