whats in a name? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet
2006-11-27 06:30:27 · 4 answers · asked by jess0866 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
A rose would still be the same flower if you called it something different. It's from Romeo andJuliet, where they aren't allowed to be inlove because their families are feuding, and one of them issaying to the other'what does it matter what your name is? I would still love you anyway'.
2006-11-27 07:25:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
names are merely a way to identify an object. no matter what you name something it still doesn't change. a rose will always have that particular smell despite all the changes that could be made to it's name.
2006-11-27 17:18:45 · answer #2 · answered by alpha mutt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that words are only descriptions of things, not the thing itself, and by themselves they mean nothing. The word "honey" is not honey, it's not the thing itself or the experience itself. You could call honey dog crap instead and it wouldn't change anything, we could have called roses skunks and skunks roses, but nothing about them would have changed. Words are only approximations of the truth
2006-11-27 14:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by Harold Hobbs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roses smell like Poo Poo Poo!
2006-11-27 14:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋