Quotes
Quotes about Name
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
Above any Greek or Roman name.
Abra was ready ere I called her name;
And though I called another, Abra came.
From all who dwell below the skies
Let the Creator's praise arise;
Let the Redeemer's name be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.
Note 1."All men have their price" is commonly ascribed to Walpole.
One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind!
Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!
Who builds a church to God and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his name.
Lotus, the name; divine, nectareous juice!
But sure the eye of time beholds no name
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
Note 1.See Milton, Quotation 4.
There is no theme more plentiful to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
Du Bartas: Days and Weeks, third day.
Note 3.Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy.--Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, chap. v. 2.
Note 5.See Sir John Davies, Quotation 1.
Note 7.There is no great and no small.--Ralph Waldo Emerson: Epigraph to History.
Note 9.La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).--Charron: De la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.--Plato: Phædrus.
Note 11.See Dryden, Quotation 23.
Note 13.See Cowley, Quotation 4.
Note 15.See Cowley, Quotation 18.
Note 17.See Bolingbroke, Quotation 3.
Note 19.'T is virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.--William Collins: Oriental Eclogues, i. line 5.
Note 21.See Prior, Quotation 10.
Note 23.See Brown, Quotation 3.
Note 25.Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer some times nods).--Horace: De Arte Poetica, 359.
