Name Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Famous Quotes and Sayings, Great One-line Quotes., Inspirational Quotes, Quotations, Words of wisdom, tags: bad name, give a name, lasting name, name, nickname
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- A bad son gives his mother a bad name. ~ Ivorian Proverb
- A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill. ~ Scottish Proverb
- A change of name or place may sometimes save a person. ~ Hebrew Proverb
- A good name reaches far but a bad one reaches farther. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
- A person with a bad name is already half-hanged. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Before you beat the dog, find out the name of his master. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Beloved children have many names. ~ Hungarian Proverb
- Better to see the face than to hear the name. ~ Author Unknown
- Don’t give a child a name until after it is born. ~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb
- Don’t think back on someone whose name you forgot, he is probably someone else by now. ~ Malawian Proverb
- Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F.Kennedy
- From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Give a dog a bad name and hang him. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Give a dog a tasty name and eat him. ~ Chinese Proverb
- God is the name we give our conscience. ~ Nader Shureih
- Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~ Traditional Proverb
- He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ~ Henry Drummond
- He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday. ~ Irish Proverb
- I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. ~ Julius Caesar
- I would rather make my name than inherit it. ~ William M Thackeray
- Of three things the devil makes a salad: lawyers’ tongues, notaries’ fingers, and a third that shall be nameless. ~ Italian Proverb
- Only when the coffin is closed will we see how long lasting is the name. ~ Japanese Proverb
- 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
- Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. ~ English Proverb
- The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. ~ Chinese Proverb
- The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
- The river may dry up but she keeps her name. ~ Nigerian Proverb
- They ate our food, and forgot our names. ~ Tunisian Proverb
- Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~ Japanese 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
- Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue. ~ Latin Proverb
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ~ William Shakespeare
- Whoever knows how to use a pen never adds his own name to the “guilty” list. ~ Arabian Proverb
- You know a person by his nickname. ~ French Proverb
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