Chance is a nickname for Providence. [ Chamfort ]

Many a man has been undone by a ridiculous nickname. [ J. H. Moore ]

Give not wantonly a dishonorable nickname to thy neighbor. [ Rabbi Eliazar ]

A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man. [ S. Butler ]

Names alone mock destruction; they survive the doom of all creation. [ H. Trevanion ]

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. [ Haliburton ]

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever. [ Zimmermann ]

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of. [ Hesiodus ]

There are many people who would give all their wealth to be dispossessed of the nicknames they have, or to stamp some new imprimatur upon them. [ Acton ]

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. [ Heine ]

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite. [ Isaac Disraeli ]