Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank Zappa

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
Desiderius Erasmus

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Desiderius Erasmus

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Albert Pike

There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis."
Arthur Ashe

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley

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

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Adolf Loos

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
George Soros

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Benazir Bhutto

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
Seth MacFarlane

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
Oriana Fallaci

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.
Debbie Allen

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