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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what read more
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!
On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) read more
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
There be of them that have left a name behind them.
There be of them that have left a name behind them.
