Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen Leacock

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire

To attract men, I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior."
Rita Rudner

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
Eddie Izzard

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.
Dennis Miller

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin