Foreign Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, proper and/or names:

“For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation first laid, how much kindness ... is unavoidably cast away?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)