Called Shot

Famous quotes containing the words called and/or shot:

“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Don’t sell the bearskin until you have shot the bear.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.