No one knows for sure what Goody Gosling's celebrated remark refers to.

Among his more celebrated remarks is that the Irish " have too much of a sense of humour to dance around a maypole".

Rather than in Borges, it seems likely that the origin of the novel's title lies in Alfred Korzybski's celebrated remark in Science and Sanity (1933):

His site, established in 1994, is emblazoned with a motto derived from one of Mark Twain's celebrated remarks: "Because nobody's life, liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session."

Smithers was an English publisher who got his sexual kicks from deflowering virgins, an obsession that gave rise to Oscar Wilde's celebrated remark that 'Smithers loves first editions'.

It had been the occasion for a celebrated remark by the vice president of the North American Union that we would soon be transporting tourists to the other side of the galaxy.

While we reach for the stars, she'd said in her celebrated remarks twenty years before at the Sudan Memorial, a third of our children cannot reach for a sandwich.

Later, in a letter to Max Born, he delivered himself of his celebrated remark that he did not believe that God (whom he customarily referred to in comradely terms as "the Old One" ) played at dice.

The principle of case analysis is invoked in the celebrated remark of Sherlock Holmes, to the effect that when one has eliminated the impossible, what remains must be true, however unlikely that seems.

As a presenter at the Tony Awards three years ago, he made his celebrated remarks on the Chinese democracy movement.