BellaOnline Forums Books and Music Quotations Quotes on Names and Naming

Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.
--in Ecclesiasticus (41:15 - link )

Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter.
--Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

Dirk, please, if you would. I prefer it. It has more of a sort of Scottish dagger feel to it.
--Douglas Adams (1952-2001) in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

...Know of any others?

Here's another I just found:

A human being's name is a principal component in his person, perhaps a piece of his soul.
--Sigmund Freud, in Totem and Taboo

And here's one attributed to JFK:

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

I was here
but now I'm gone
I left my Name
to carry on... Moe

I don't know who that is from.