Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Marilyn Monroe

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
Warren Buffett

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mohandas Gandhi

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mohandas Gandhi

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."
Andy Warhol

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare