Quote by John Stuart Mill

“Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious.”

— Lao Tzu

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

— W. H. Auden

“Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named”

— David Simpson

“The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”

— Lao Tzu

“names which are relatively easy to pronounce correctly by someone whose first and only language is English have been included. Unless you speak a…

— K.M. Sheard

“Sometimes, when something has a name it changes things. Especially when the name is big, long, and official-sounding, like "gender-nonconforming".”

— Lori Duron

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the…

— Salman Rushdie

“Often we have three terms for the same thing--one Anglo-Saxon, one French, and one clearly absorbed from Latin or Greek. The Anglo-Saxon word is…

— Henry Hitchings

“It is noticeable that the Phoenician terms are often shared with Ugaritic.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

A name means a lot just by itself.

— Jenny Holzer

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes…

— Maynard James Keenan

“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is…

— Steven Pinker