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«Chance is a nickname of Providence»
Author: Chamfort | About: Chance | Keywords: nickname, nicknamed, Nicknames, providence
«Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of light.»
«My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.»
«I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.»
«No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.»
«Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.»
«Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.»
«A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man»
«Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.»