C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Nickname
Names alone mock destruction; they survive the doom of all creation.
H. Trevanion.
A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man.
Anonymous.
A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.
Zimmermann.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Haliburton.
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.