Names

Famous quotes containing the word names:

    “Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Watt’s need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given, to assure that happiness [of saving the Union], and swell that grandeur, and to link your own names therewith forever.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)