“Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwink’d.”

Williaim Cowper, English Poet

“A thousand names are toss’d into the crowd;
Some whisper’d softly, and some twang’d aloud.”

William Cowper, English Poet

“I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, ‘Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.’”

William James “Count” Basie, American Musician

“Oh, I’ll tell you their names, but you know it seems to me they give these ball players now-a-days very peculiar names.”

William Alexander “Bud” Abbott, American Comedian

“I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.”

James Joyce, Irish Poet

“In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.”

Hubert H. Humphrey, American Vice President

“Words have meaning, and names have power.”

Unknown

“He goes by the brand, yet imagines he goes by the flavor.”

Mark Twain, American Author

“What’s in a name?  That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

William Shakespeare, English Playwright

“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”

Bill Cosby, American Entertainer