famous quote
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cita famosa
- Even now, looking over some of his most famous quotes, it's surprising to see just how funny he was.
And there's a really famous quote that says rejection is God's protection.
- And there's a really famous quote that says rejection is God's protection.
- All right, so one famous quote is be the person that your dog thinks you are.
- Hillary's remarks foretold the course of her later career, recasting Otto von Bismarck's famous quote that politics is the art of the possible.
- After all, as the famous quote goes, we're seeing the left moderate and really it's time for MAGA to moderate as well.
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George Santayana's famous quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," sounds great.
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To paraphrase a famous quote from George Santayana, those who can remember the past are not condemned to repeat it.
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All right, so one famous quote is be the person that your dog thinks you are.
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This is one of the most famous quotes in American history.
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Here are some famous quotes about the future to give you the idea:
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The movie's most famous quote seems equally applicable today: "I feel the need for speed!"
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"Remember in the Watergate scandal, there was the famous quote: 'Follow the money,'" Trope says.
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Therefore, De Tocqueville added some depth to Jefferson's famous quote that the "government that governs best governs least."
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Founded in 2009, the 99U takes its name from Thomas Edison's famous quote, "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration."
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This is one of the most famous quotes in American history.
Synonyms
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A short passage from a book or speech that someone repeats
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A short well-known phrase that gives advice or a general truth
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A short phrase many people know and repeat
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A short well-known saying that gives advice or a general truth
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A well-known short saying that gives advice or shows a general truth
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A short traditional phrase that gives advice or a general truth
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A short, clever saying that shows a general truth
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A short memorable saying that gives common advice
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A common saying many people repeat that gives simple advice
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A common saying used so often it sounds tired
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a well-known phrase or statement' is directly and compositionally derived from 'famous' (widely recognized) + 'quote' (a cited passage). This ADJ+NOUN pattern is standard and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Famous quote comes from the idea of a short line of words someone once said, where quote means those exact words and famous means many people know them. Imagine that sentence being passed from person to person like a note until everyone remembers it. So a famous quote means 'a well-known phrase people often repeat'.