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  • Our name for problems is significant.We call them headaches.You take a powder and theyare gone.

    - Dean Gooderham Acheson
    Quoted in David S McLellan Dean  Acheson: The State DepartmentYears (1976).

  • I bind into myself today The strong name of theTrinity, By invocation of the same TheThree in One and One inThree.

    - Cecil Frances Alexander
      'St Patrick's Breastplate', his translation from the Irish.

  • Ningue  m no cais tem um nome so  .Todos te"  m tambe  m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo  ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.

    -Jorge Amado
      Mar morto (Sea of Death,1984),'Iemanja ' .

  • There was a girl in our town, Silk an'satin was her gown, Silk an'satin, gold an' velvet, Guess her name, three times I've telled it.

    -Anonymous
    Quoted in  James Orchard Halliwell  The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842). The answer, of course, is'Ann'.

  • My name hasgotten to be a household wordat least in certain households. I think there are now people who know my name, but don't know what Ido.I'm famous for being famous.

    -John Lawrence Ashbery
      Interview in PN Review, no.46.

  • I bequeath my soul to God† For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      From his will.

  • The terror of his name has stretched itself Wherever there is sun.

    - Francis and Fletcher,John Beaumont
    A King and No King, act 2, sc.2.

  • It isaswholly wrong toblame Marx for what wasdonein his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.

    -Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood) Benn
    Quoted in  Alan Freeman The Benn Heresy (1982).

  • And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDORDORDORDORDORDExodus 20:1^17.

  •   But if ye shall at all turn from following me† Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and thishouse, which Ihavehallowed formy name, will Icast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Kings 9:6^7.

  • O L our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy gloryabove the heavens.Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 8:1^2.

  • Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the L our God.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms 20:7.

  • Bless the L,O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.Bless the L,O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies;Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms103:1^5.

  • Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the L: we have blessed you out of the house of the L.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms118:26.

  • For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Counseller,The mighty God, The everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, uponthethrone of David, and uponhis kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L of hosts will perform this.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDIsaiah 9:6^7.

  • Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 43:1^2.

  • Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

    -Bible (Apocrypha)
    Ecclesiasticus 44:14.

  • And he asked him,What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Mark 5:9.

  • While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosethatthougavest me Ihave kept, and noneof them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St  John17:12.

  • Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Acts of the  Apostles 4:12.

  • Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being intheformof God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Philippians 2:5^11.

  • Behold,I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation 3:8.

  • And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation13:17^18.

  • Non nobis, Domine, non nobis; sed nomini tuo da gloriam. Not untous,Lord, not untous; buttothy namegiveglory.

    -Bible (Vulgate)
    Psalm113 (2nd part):1 (Psalm115:1  Authorized Version).

  •    Therefore with Angels, and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee, and saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee,O Lord most High. Amen.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Holy Communion, Praise.

  • Almighty God, unto whomall hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Holy Communion, Collect.

  • Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

    - Basil Bunting
      Briggflatts.

  •    With a name like yours you might be any shape, almost.

    -Dodgson
    Through the Looking-Glass, ch.6,'Humpty Dumpty'.

  • Ful craftier to pley she was Than Athalus, that made the game First of the ches, so was his name.

    - Geoffrey Chaucer
    c.1370  The Book of the Duchess, l.662^4.

  • I don't care what you sayabout me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

    - George M(ichael) Cohan
    Quoted in  John McCabe George M Cohan, The Man Who Owned Broadway (1973), ch.13.

  • Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.

    -William Cowper
      The Task, bk.6,'The Winter  Walk at Noon', l.223.

  •    Leonora, Leonora, How the word rollsLeonora Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime; So your name moves, Leonora, Down my desert rhyme.

    - Dinah Maria ne  e Mulock Craik
    Collected Poems,'Leonora'.

  •    The Cross alone has flown the wave. But since the Cross sank, much that's warped and cracked Has followed in its name, has heaped its grave.

    - (Harold) Hart Crane
      'The Mermen', in The Dial, no.85,  Jul.

  •    'next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims'and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country 'tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb they sons acclaim you glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum

    - e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
      is 5,'Two, III'.

  • And a wery good name it isonly one I know, that ain't got a nickname to it. 266

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^7  Sam Weller comments on  Job Trotter's Christian name. Pickwick Papers, ch.16.

  • I am the love that dare not speak its name.

    - Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas
      'Two Loves'.

  • To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      Of Irene  Adler. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 'Scandal in Bohemia'.

  • You mentioned yournameasif Ishould recogniseit, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      The Return of Sherlock Holmes,'The Norwood Builder'.

  • Here lies, bowl'd out by Death's unerring ball, A cricketer renowned, by name John Small; But though his name was small, yet great was his fame, For nobly did he play the'noble game'. His life was like his inningslong and good; Full ninety summers had Death withstood, At length the ninetieth winter camewhen (Fate Not leaving him one solitary mate) This last of Hambledonians, old John Small, Gave up his bat and ballhis leather, wax and all.

    - Pierce Egan
      Epitaph on cricketer  John Small. Pierce Egan's Book of Sports.

  • When you notice a cat in profound meditation The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,'The Naming of Cats'.

  • Je suis ne   pour te conna|"tre Pour te nommer Liberte  . I was born to know you To give you your name: Freedom.

    - Paul pseudonym of  Euge'  ne Grindel EŁ  luard
      Poe  sie et ve  rite , 'Liberte ' .

  • My name is on the building.

    - Henry Ford
    His habitual justification for having the last word. Recalled on his death, 29 Sep1987.

  • O Freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!

    - Daniel pseudonym of  Daniel George Bunting George
      The Perpetual Pessimist.

  • Wan swelh w|"p tugendet wider ir art, diu gerne wider ir art bewart ir lop, ir e"  re unde ire l|"p, diu ist niwan mit namen ein w|"p und ist ein man mit muote. When a woman grows in virtue despite her nature and gladly preserves the integrity of her honour, her reputation, and her person, she is onlya woman in name: in spirit she is a man.

    -Gottfried von Strassburg    fl.c.1200
    c.1210  Tristan, l.17971^3.

  • 'Cause some make forfeit of their name, And slave themselves to man's desire; Shall the sex free From guilt, damn'd to the bondage be?

    -William Habington
      Castara,'Against Them Who Lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women'.

  • I reside at Table Mountain, and my name isTruthful James; I am not up to small deceit or any sinful games.

    - (Francis) Bret Harte
      'The Society upon the Stanislaus', stanza1.

  • 'Yossarian? Is that his name? Yossarian? What the hell kind of a name isYossarian?' Lieutenant Scheisskopf had the facts at his finger tips.'It'sYossarian's name, sir,' he explained.

    -Joseph Heller
    Catch-22, ch.8.

  • Et si uxoris nomen sanctius ac validius videtur, dulcius mihi semper exstitit amic× vocabulum; aut si non indigneris, concubin× vel scorti. Ifthename of wifeseemsmore blessed or more binding, always sweeter to me will be the word lover, or if I may, concubine or whore.

    -He  lo|«  se
    c.1135  First letter to Peter  Abelard.

  • I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

    - Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine
      Said on numerous occasions in the autumn.

  • For all the Saints who from their labours rest, WhoThee by faith before the world confess'd, Thy name,OJesu, be for ever blest, Alleluia!

    -WilliamWalsham How
      'For  All the Saints', in Earl Nelson Hymns for Saints' Days.

  • New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

    - Ada Louise ne  e Landman Huxtable
      In the NewYork Times, 20  Jul.

  • Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul and faith. And I was around when Jesus Christ Had his moments of doubt and pain, Made damn sure that Pilate Washed his hands and sealed his fate. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name But what's puzzling you Is the nature of my game.

    - Mick and Richards, Keith Jagger
      'Sympathy for the Devil'.

  • Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

    -John Keats
    Epitaph for himself. Quoted in Richard Monckton Milnes Life, Letters and Literary Remains of  John Keats (1848), vol.2.

  •    And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: 'A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.'

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      The Naulahka, ch.5.

  • Their Name Liveth for Evermore. See Bible108:67.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      His suggestion for the text to be carved over the lists of the dead in the Commonwealth war cemeteries after World War I.

  • The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

    - Maggie Kuhn
      In the Observer, 20  Aug.

  • Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.

    - Henry Du Pre Labouche'  re
      In the Fortnightly Review, Feb.

  • Chacun se dit ami; mais fol qui s'y repose: Rien n'est plus commun que ce nom, Rien n'est plus rare que la chose. Everyone calls himself a friend; foolish is he who believes it: Nothing is more common than the name friend, And nothing is more rare than the real thing.

    -Jean de La Fontaine
      Fables, pt.4, no.17,'Parole de Socrate'.

  • Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

    - Bert Lance
      Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct. US  newspaper  columnist  and 'agony  aunt',  who  offered  advice and information on  topics  such  as  family  life,  marriage,  social issues and health.

  • Marrying left your maiden name disused.

    - Philip Arthur Larkin
      'Maiden Name'.

  • Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms Inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

    - Philip Arthur Larkin
      'The Old Fools'.

  • Death is a name for beauty not in use.

    - Irving Layton
      'Composition in Late Spring', collected in The Collected Poems of Irving Layton (1971).

  • The puritanical potentialities of sciencehavenever been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchicallyorganized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency'. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

    -Jose Lezama Lima
      The Art of Being Ruled.

  • Stat magni nominis umbra. There stands the shade of a great name.

    -Lucan full name Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
    Of Pompey. Pharsalia, bk.1,1.135.

  • While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

    -Joseph R(aymond) McCarthy
      Speech at  Wheeling, West Virginia, 9 Feb, which marked the beginning of the McCarthy 'witch hunts' for communists.

  • Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.

    - Philip Massinger
      A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act 3, sc.2.

  •    Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.

    - Arthur Miller
      Leduc. Incident at Vichy, act1.

  •    What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in pile'  d stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.

    -John Milton
      'On Shakespeare'.

  • Si l'on vient a'   savoir mon nom, de'  s ce moment je me tais. Je connais une femme qui marche assez bien, mais qui boite de'  s qu'on la regarde. Once someone wants to know my name, I become quiet. I know a woman who walks rather well, but who limps once she sees someone watching her.

    -Bre'  de et de
    Lettres persanes, introduction.

  • More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And hewhistled, andshouted, and called thembyname; 'Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!'

    - Clement Moore
      The Night Before Christmas.

  • A place as kind as it isgreen, the greenest place I've never seen. Every name is a tune.

    - Marianne Craig Moore
    What  AreYears,'Spencer's Ireland'.

  •   Alas! My dear sir, the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.Painting has been a smiling mistresstomany, but shehasbeenacrueljilttome.

    -Morrissey full name Steven Patrick Morrissey
      Letter to his friend the writer  James Fenimore Cooper, 20 Nov.

  • When a man of my name is in power, he must do great things.

    -LouisNapoleon Bonaparte
    Quoted in  A J P  Taylor From Napoleon to theSecond International (1993).

  • How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear!

    -John Newton
      Olney Hymns,'How sweet the name of  Jesus sounds'.

  • Why should not the name of an Australian be equal to that of a Briton†to that of a citizen of the proudest country under the sun? Make yourselves a united people, appear before the world as one, and the dream of going 'home' will die away.

    - Sir Henry Parkes
      Speech to theAustralian Federation Conference, Feb.

  • This day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by thename of Pennsylvania; anametheking wouldgive it in honor of my father.

    -William Penn
      Letter to RobertTurner,14 Mar.

  • We must recollect†what it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Englishmen, it is for everything dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.

    -William known as  theYounger Pitt
      Speech, 22 Jul, on the breaking of the Peace of Amiens and the resumption of the war with Napoleon. Quoted in Speeches of the Rt. Hon.William Pitt (1806), vol.4.

  • No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

    - Alexander Pope
      'Eloisa to Abelard'.

  • Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

    - Alexander Pope
      An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.1^4.

  • If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!

    - Alexander Pope
      An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.281^4.

  • No, I never heard nothing about it, but when they name any disease after two guys, it's got to be terrible!

    - Mario Puzo
    On Guillain-Barre   syndrome. Quoted in Heller andVogel No Laughing Matter (1986).

  • For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marksnot that you won or lost But how you played the game.

    - Grantland Rice
    Only the Brave,'Alumnus Football'.

  • If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

    -John D(avison), III Rockefeller
      On becomingWestVirginia's Secretary of State (before moving on to be Governor). In the NewYorkTimes, 4 Oct.

  •    Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more,Too-late, Farewell.

    - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    The House of Life,'A Superscription', pt.2.

  • A poet's work† To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

    - (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
      The SatanicVerses, pt.2.

  • Nobody cares much at heart about Titian; only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he isgreater than they.

    -John Ruskin
      TheTwo Paths, lecture 2.

  • 'Is your maid called Florence?' 'Her name is Florinda.' 'What an extraordinary name to give a maid!' 'I did not give it to her; she arrived in my service already christened'.'What I mean is,'said Mrs Riversedge,'that when Iget maids with unsuitable names I call them Jane; they soon get used to it.' 'An excellent plan,'said theaunt of Clovis coldly; 'unfortunately I have got used to being called Jane myself. It happens to be my name.'

    -Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
    The Chronicles of Clovis,'The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope'.

  • Here Vaughan lies dead, whose name flows on for ever Through pastures of the spirit washed with dew And starlit with eternities unknown.

    - Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
      The Heart'sJourney, pt.23,'At the Grave of HenryVaughan'.

  • He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

    - Albert Schweitzer
      Von Reimarus zuWrede (translated byW Montgomery as The Quest for the HistoricalJesus,1910).

  • Still is thy name in high account, And still thy verse has charms, Sir David Lindesay of the Mount, Lord Lion King-at-arms!

    - Sir Walter Scott
      Marmion, canto 4, stanza 7.

  • He that is without name, without friends, without coin, without country, is still at least a man; and he that has all these is no more.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      Rob Roy to Francis Osbaldistone. Rob Roy, ch.21.

  • Speak out, sir, and do not Maister or Campbell memy foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!

    - Sir Walter Scott
      Rob Roy to Francis Osbaldistone. Rob Roy, ch.34.

  • The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want. He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by. My soul he doth restore again: and me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, ev'n for his own name's sake. Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear no ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still.

    -Scottish Metrical Psalms
      Translation of Psalm 23:1^4.

  • 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'Ozymandias'.

  • Ye say, theyall have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That 'mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.

    - Lydia Howard ne  e Huntley Sigourney
      Select Poems,'Indian Names'.

  • In reality, killing time Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways By whichTime kills us.

    - Sir (Francis) Osbert Sitwell
      'Milordo Inglese'.

  •    The moment that the very name of Ireland ismentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots.

    - Rev Sydney Smith
    ^8  Peter Plymley's Letters.

  • Immortal, invisible,God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blesse'  d, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious,Thy great name we praise.

    -Walter Chalmers Smith
      'Immortal, Invisible', hymn.

  • There have been many crimes committed in the name of duty and obediencemany more than in the name of dissent.

    - C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
      'Testimony of Four Peers', in Esquire, Dec.

  • My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

    - Robert Southey
      'The Lay of the Laureate', stanza 87.

  • My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.

    - Sir Stephen Harold Spender
    World withinWorld, p.314^15.

  • Nought so of love this looser dame did skill, But as a coal to kindle fleshly flame, Giving the bridle to her wanton will, And treading underfoot her honest name.

    - Edmund Spenser
      Of Malecasta.The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto1, stanza 50.

  •    One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washe'  d it away; Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 'Vain man,'said she,'that doest in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise, For I my self shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipe'  d out likewise.' 'Not so,'quod I,'let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.'

    - Edmund Spenser
      Amoretti, sonnet 75.

  • In the name of the Constitution,Cromwell took up arms, executed the king, dissolved Parliament, imprisoned some, and beheaded others.

    -Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin
      In conversation with H G Wells, Moscow.

  • 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,and of obstinacy in a bad one.

    - Laurence Sterne
    ^67  Toby.Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.17.

  • Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

    - Laurence Sterne
    ^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.2, ch.11.

  • And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

    - Algernon Charles Swinburne
      Poems and Ballads,'An Interlude'.

  • Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

    - Algernon Charles Swinburne
      Poems and Ballads (2nd edn),'Ballad of Fran c° oisVillon'.

  • I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'Ulysses' (published1842), l.6^24.

  •    He lifted up his head a little, and quickly said,'Adsum!' and fell back† He, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.

    -William Makepeace Thackeray
    ^5  The Newcomes, vol.1, ch.80.

  • 'A chilli,'said Rebecca, gasping,'Oh, yes!' She thought a chilli wassomething cool, asitsname imported, and was served with some.'How fresh and green they look,'she said, and put one into her mouth. It was hotter than the curry; flesh and blood could bear it no longer. She laid down her fork.'Water, for Heaven's sake, water!'she cried.

    -William Makepeace Thackeray
    ^8  Vanity Fair, ch.3

  • The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, And famine grew, and locusts came; Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.

    - Dylan Marlais Thomas
      'The HandThat Signed the Paper Felled a City'.

  • It is difficult to live up to one's poster† When I pass my name in large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

    - Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm Tree
    Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

  •    To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain

  • Who knows who his grandfather is, much less his name?

    - Derek Alton Walcott
      The Star-Apple Kingdom,'The Schooner Flight', pt.5.

  • Ja"   leider desn mac nicht ges|"n, Das guot und wertlich e"  re Und gotes hulde me"  re Zesamene in ein herze komen. It is sadly impossible For wealth and a good name, along with God's favour, to be united in one heart.

    -Walther Von derVogelweide
    c.1195  'Ich sass u"   f eime steine', l.16^19.

  • To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, orat least thething that had been called by that name for the last four centuries.What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

    - Simone Weil
    On Science, Necessity and the Love of God,'Classical Science and After' (translated by Richard Rees,1968).

  • Once they heard someone call for 'Snooks'.'I always thought that name was invented by novelists,'said Miss Winchelsea.'Fancy! Snooks. I wonder which is Mr. Snooks?' Finally they picked out a stout and resolute little man in a large check suit.'If he isn't Snooks, he ought to be,'said Miss Winchelsea.

    - H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
      Tales of Life and Adventure,'MissWinchelsea's Heart'.

  • Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

    - Charles Wesley
      'Forth inThy Name', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.

  • Experience isthename everyonegivestotheir mistakes.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      Dumby. LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3.

  • : I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. :Jack?† No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations† I have known several Jacks, and theyall, without exception, weremore than usually plain. Besides,Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      JACKGWENDOLEN1895  The Importance of Being Earnest, act1.

  • I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after.What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinkingThames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses.But I wanted to give hima river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.

    -Jeanette Winterson
      Sexing the Cherry.

  •    A good name is seldom got by giving it one's self.

    -William Wycherley
      The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.

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