Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own…

— Walter Savage Landor

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

— Robert Harris

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

— Marshall McLuhan

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

— William Penn

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

— Bentley Little

A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

— James Salter

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

— Learned Hand

One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.

— Hillel the Elder

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

— John Hurt

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon…

— Joseph Hall

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery