Called

Famous quotes containing the word called:

“A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“There was a young lady called Maud,
A sort of society fraud.
In the parlor, ‘tis told,
She was distant and cold,
But on the verandah, my Gawd!”
—Anonymous.