Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

Little, Brown & Co., 1980, 15th and 125th Anniversary Edition, revised and enlarged

This book contains more than 22,5000 quotations (2,500 of them making their first appearance). A classic, indispensable reference work originated by John Bartlett in 1855, it covers quips from a wide variety of authors, historical and contemporary, from Muhammed Ali to Mozart and Pythagoras to Mick Jagger. More translations from non-British works appear in this edition, besides some fresh translations of others already in the text. For the first time, the enlarged section of anonymous entries includes sea shanties, cowboy songs and spirituals, as well as traditional poems and chants from Africa and from North American Indians. Even the Bible, classical and Shakespearean sections have been examined and expanded, along with the sections of Buddhist and Sanskrit writings and the Koran...