The French Revolution (1837), the book that made him famous, spoke very directly to this consciously postrevolutionary age.
In the first decade of the 20th century, a horse named Hans drew worldwide attention in Berlin as the first and most famous "speaking" and thinking animal.
Famous words Spoken to Snoopy on April 25 , 1960 "Happiness is a warm puppy".
Perhaps the most famous line spoken on screen by the actor Patricia Neal, who has died of lung cancer aged 84, was "Klaatu barada nikto!" in Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
"Water, water everywhere,/ Nor any drop to drink". This famous line, spoken by the lost sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, sums up one of the basic difficulties of life at sea: humans need water to survive, but seawater is too salty to drink.
It contains the most famous line spoken by a newspaper man: 'This is the West, sir. When the truth becomes fact, print the legend.' Bacall is probably right: you can't become a legend in your youth, and it's arguable that no one alive and younger than you can be a legend.
And the word even sneaks its way into one of Shakespeare's most famous lines, spoken by the Eeyorish Jaques in As You Like It, who informs his fellow characters (and us in the watching audience) that "all the world's a stage" – a chill reminder that most of us are mere extras in someone else's drama. .
One reads, "GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE," from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, words that were among the most famous ever spoken by a president.
But stepping back a moment brings to mind Neil Armstrong's most famous line, spoken after becoming the first person to set foot on the moon: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind".
