Courses Quote by Oscar Wilde

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

— Henry David Thoreau

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go…

— Confucius

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires…

— Sallust

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real…

— Samuel Adams

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

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

— Anonymous

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

— Bentley Little

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

— Walter Scott

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

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled…

— B. C. Forbes

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily…

— Frederick William Robertson