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• Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service (1989), ed. by Suzy Platt (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• A Dictionary of Quotations From English and American Poets (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., c1883), ed. by Henry G. Bohn and Anna Lydia Ward (PDF at djm.cc)
• Familiar Quotations (9th edition, 1901), by John Bartlett (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Familiar Quotations (10th edition, 1919), by John Bartlett, ed. by Nathan Haskell Dole
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• Good Cheer Nuggets: Maeterlinck, Le Conte, Hugo, Dresser (New York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert, c1902), ed. by Jeanne G. Pennington, contrib. by Maurice Maeterlinck, Joseph LeConte, Victor Hugo, and Horatio W. Dresser (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Index to Familiar Quotations, by John Cooper Grocott (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
• A Chesterton Calendar: Compiled from the Writings of 'G.K.C.' Both in Verse and in Prose, With a Section Apart for the Moveable Feasts (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1911), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• Chesterton Day by Day: Selections from the Writings in Prose and Verse of G. K. Chesterton, with an Extract for every Day of the Year and for each of the Moveable Feasts (second edition; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1912), by G. K. Chesterton (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
• Obiter Dicta of Bacon and Shakespeare on Manners, Mind, Morals (London: Robert Banks and Son, 1900), by Mrs. Henry Pott, contrib. by William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. by Henry Nelson Coleridge (Gutenberg text)
• Scientific side-lights, illustrating thousands of topics by selections from standard works of the masters of science throughout the world ... (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls company, 1903 [1902]), by James Champlin Fernald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Noble thoughts in noble language: a collection of wise and virtuous utterances, in prose and verse, from the writings of the known great and the great unknown. (London, Ward, Lock and Tyler, [1871]), by Henry Southgate (page images at HathiTrust)
• The optimist's good night / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1910), by Florence Hobart Perin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasury of thought. Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from ancient and modern authors. (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1884), by Maturin Murray Ballou (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of familiar quotations; being a collection of popular extracts and aphorisms from the works of the best authors. (London New York, G. Rontledge and sons, [1835?]), by I. C comp Gent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Between the lights; thoughts for the quiet hour, (New York, Boston : T.Y. Crowell & company, [1899]), by Fanny B. Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The banquet book; a classified collection of quotations designed for general reference, and also as an aid in the preparation of the toast list, the after-dinner speech, and the occasional address; together with suggestions concerning the menu and certain other details connected with the proper ordering of the banquet, (New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902), by Cuyler Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirteen author collections of the nineteenth century, and five centuries of familiar quotations. (New York, Priv. print. for Scribner, 1950), by Carroll Atwood Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts for those who think : 1000 graded memory gems / (Lansing, Mich. : H.R. Pattengill, 1890), by Henry Romaine Pattengill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts for those who think. 1,000 graded memory gems. (Lansing, Mich., H.R. Pattengill, 1902), by Henry Romaine Pattengill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reinforcements, (New York, R.R. Beam & Company, 1915), by Alida Stanwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected quotations on peace and war, with especial reference to a course of lessons on international peace, a study in Christian fraternity included in this volume; (New York city, [c1915]), by comp Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Commission on Christian education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oracles from the poets : a fanciful diversion for the drawing room / (Philadelphia : H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1852, 1844), by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of select and popular quotations, which are in daily use: taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish and Italian languages: together with a copious collection of law-maxims and law-terms; translated into English, with illustrations historical and idiomatic. (Philadelphia, A. Finley, 1824), by David Evans Macdonnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polonius : a collection of wise saws and modern instances. (London : W. Pickering, 1852), by Edward FitzGerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of select and popular quotations : which are in daily use: taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish and Italian languages: together with a copious collection of law-maxims and law-terms / translated into English, with illustrations historical and idiomatic. (Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1828), by David Evans Macdonnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Widows grave and otherwise; (San Francisco : P. Elder and company, c1903), by Cora D. Willmarth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The handbook of quotations, (New York, Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Edith B. Ordway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy dictionary of poetical quotations, (New York : T. Y. Crowell, [1901]), by George Whitefield Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kaina kai palaia. Things new and old: or, A storehouse of similes, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adages, apologues, divine, moral, political, &c., with their several applications. Collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present. (London, W. Tegg., 1869), by John Spencer and Thomas Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of quotations from English and American poets : based upon Bohn's edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. Twelve hundred quotations added from American authors / (New York : T.Y. Crowell & Co., c1911), by Henry George Bohn and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of quotations from English and American poets. (New York, T. Y. Crowell & co., [1911]), by Henry G. Bohn and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of quotations from English and American poets. (New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co., [1883]), by Henry G. Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward, and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mein kampf in Holland : or, Straight from the horse's mouth ... / (New York, The Netherlands information bureau, [1943]), by Netherlands Regeeringsvoorlichtingsdienst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Many thoughts of many minds : selections from the writings of the most celebrated authors from the earliest to the present time / (London, Charles Griffin and Company ..., [18--?]), by Henry Southgate and Charles Griffin & Company publisher. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden words for daily counsel. (New York, T. Y. Crowell & Co., [1888]), by Anna Harris Smith, ed. by Huntington Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature, (Boston, Little, Brown, 1914), by John Bartlett, ed. by Nathan Haskell Dole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights: six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies. (New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 19--), by Charles Eugene Little (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cyclopæaedia of practical quotations, English and Latin, with an appendix containing proverbs from the Latin and modern foreign languages; law and ecelesiastical terms and significations; names, dates and nationality of quoted authors, etc., with copious indexes. (New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1886), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cyclopaedia of practical quotations, English and Latin : with an appendix containing proverbs from the Latin and modern foreign languages law and ecclesiastical terms and significations names, dates and nationality of quoted authors, etc., with copious indexes / (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1886), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co., 1856), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and John F. Addington (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations : comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets / (Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo, 1855), by John F. Addington, ed. by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poets' offering for 1850 / (Philadelphia : Grigg, Elliot & Co., 1850), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excellent quotations for home and school ... (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1890), by Julia B. Hoitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs. Authors, 931; subjects, 1393; quotations, 10,299. (Philadelphia, D. McKay, 1891), by Adam Wooléver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polonius : a collection of wise saws and modern instances / (London : Alexander Moring Limited, The De La More Press, 1905), by Edward FitzGerald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets. (Philadelphia E. Claxton & company, 1881), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and John F. Addington (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of terms, phrases,and quotations; (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1895), by Henry Percy Smith and Helen Kendrick Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Many thoughts of many minds; selections from the writings of the most celebrated authors from the earliest to the present time. (London, C. Griffin and company, 1871), by Henry Southgate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights: six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies. (New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1886), by Charles Eugene Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar words: an index verborum or quotation handbook, with parallel passages, or phrases which have become embedded in our English tongue. (London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1889), by J. Hain Friswell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott - co., 1859), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and John F. Addington (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of quotations, in most frequent use. : Taken chiefly from the Latin and French, but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian languages; translated into English. With illustrations historical and idiomatic. / (London: : Printed for G. and J. Robinson ..., 1803), by David Evans Macdonnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stokes' encyclopedia of familiar quotations; containing five thousand selections from six hundred authors; with a complete general index and an index of authors. (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [1906]), by Elford Eveleigh Treffry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of quotations in prose, from American and foreign authors, including translations from ancient sources. (New York, T.Y. Crowell, [c1889]), ed. by Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of wise sayings, selected largely from Eastern sources, (London, Hutchinson & co., 1893), by W. A. Clouston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prose quotations from Socrates to Macaulay; with indexes. Authors, 544; subjects, 571; quotations, 8810. (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company, 1880), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• About men: what women have said ... (New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons, [1895]), by Rose Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar quotations : being an attempt to trace to their sources passages and phrases in common use / (Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1879 [c1875]), by John Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson : with copious indexes ... (Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1892), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations : comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets / (Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852), by John F. Addington and Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The table-talk of John Selden, (London, J.R. Smith, 1860), by John Selden, Ri. Milward, and Samuel Weller Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best thoughts of best thinkers, amplified, classified, exemplified and arranged as a key to unlock the literature of all ages, (Cleveland, Best thoughts publishing company, 1904), by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs : Authors, 931; subjects, 1393; quotations, 10,299 / (Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878), ed. by Adam Wooléver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stokes' cyclopædia of familiar quotations; containing five thousand selections from six hundred authors; with a complete general index and an index of authors. (London, Chambers; New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, 1907), by Elford Eveleigh Treffry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gatherings by the wayside / (Portland [Oregon] : G.H. Himes & Co., 1895), by Ore.). Ladies' Aid Society First Congregational Church (Portland, illust. by Grant C. Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments from many tables; being the recollections of some wise and witty men and women / (Edinburgh, London : W. Blackwood, 1888), by George Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of English poetry. Containing, (London, Hitch and Hawes [etc.], 1762), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Winged words"; (Milwaukee, Printed by Wetzel bros. printing co., 1921), by Andrew Joseph Ambauen (page images at HathiTrust)
• An optimistic equation and other optimism. (Minneapolis : [s.n.], 1903), by E. B. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of similes / (Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1981, c1924), by Frank Jenners Wilstach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts; (New York, Dodge Publishing Co., [c1901]), by Jessie K. Freeman, Sarah S. B. Yule, and Fabiola Hospital Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helio-tropes; or, New posies for sundials, written in an old book partly in English and partly in Latin and expounded in English (London, Methuen, [1903]), ed. by John Parmenter and Perceval Landon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Immortelles : being a collection of helpful thoughts from various sources / (Glendale, Calif. : Mutual Benefit Reading Circle, 1923), by Mutual Benefit Reading Circle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Day by day with American playwrights (Modesto, Calif., Adobe press, Commercial printing company, 1936), by Irene Hoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oakland (Oakland, Calif. : Acme Print. Co., [190-?]), by Acme Print. Co. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Words and days : a table-book of prose and verse / (London : Rivington, Percival, 1895), by Bowyer Nichols (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First appearance in print of some four hundred familiar quotations. ([Middletown, Conn., Presswork by Pelton & King, inc., 1935]), by Carroll A. Wilson and Conn.). Library Wesleyan University (Middletown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quotations for occasions / (New York : Century, 1903), by Katharine B. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of familiar quotations; being a collection of popular extracts and aphorisms from the works of the best authors. (London, G. Routledge and sons, 1866), by L. C. com Gent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauties of the modern dramatists: with notes. (London : G. Mann, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson. (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co., 1884), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edge-tools of speech, (Boston, Ticknor and company, 1886), by Maturin Murray Ballou (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets ; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets / (Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1850), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and John F. Addington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson's men and women; an every day book, (New York, E.R. Herrick & Company, [1898]), by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Rose Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edge-tools of speech / (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1899), by Maturin Murray Ballou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Borrowings; a compilation of helpful thoughts from great authors. (San Francisco, C.A. Murdock & Company, 1894), by Calif.). Ladies First Unitarian Church (Oakland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wisdom of the wise : pithy and pointed sayings of the best authors / (Boston : D. Lothrop Company, ©1891), by Caroline L. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of Jewish thoughts selected and arranged by the chief rabbi (Dr. J. H. Hertz) (London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1921), by Joseph H. Hertz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• For thy good cheer. (New York, Dodge Pub. Co., [1903]), by Jessie K Freeman, Evelyn Stevens Wilson, and Sarah S. B. Yule (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological year book, second series; quotations showing the laws, the ways, the means, the methods, for gaining lasting health, happiness, peace and prosperity. (San Francisco, P. Elder and company, [1905]), by Janet Young, Tomoyé Press. Book producer, and Paul Elder and Company. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light of Persia; (Chicago, The Wage workers' publishing co., 1890), by George Peter McIntyre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1835), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anima poetæ from the unpublished note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; ed. by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. (Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1895), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Author's calendar. 1890. ([Boston, Greenough, Hopkins & Cushing, 1889]), by Alice Flora McClary Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living waters. (Boston, S. E. Cassino., 1889), by Alice L. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• For His sake; thoughts for Easter day and every day, (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1900), by Anna E. Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oracles from the poets: a fanciful diversion for the drawing-room. (New York, Clark, Austin & Smith, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oracles from the poets: a fanciful diversion for the drawing room. By Caroline Gilman. (New York & London, Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of poetical quotations : or, Elegant extracts on every subject / Comp. from various authors, and arranged under appropriate heads. By John T. Watson ... (Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1858), by John T. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson. : With copious indexes: authors, 550; subjects, 435; quotations, 13,600 / By S. Austin Allibone. (Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great truths by great authors. (Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & co., 1856), by William M. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great truths by great authors : a dictionary of aids to reflection, quotations of maxims, metaphors, counsels, cautions, aphorisms, proverbs, &c., &c. from writers of all ages and both hemispheres. (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1859), by William M. White and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Americana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the table talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (London, J. Murray, 1852), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. by Henry Nelson Coleridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strength for every day; a compilation of beautiful thoughts for my friend. (New York, Dodge publishing company, [1902]), by J. Frederick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characteristic passages from the hundred best English prose-writers, (New York, T. Y. Crowell & company, [c1910]), by Adam L. Gowans (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets. (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co., 1856), by John F. Addington, ed. by Sarah Josepha Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co., 1860), by John F. Addington and Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• About women: (New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons, [c1894]), by Rose Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Green pastures and still waters, (Boston, Mass, S. E. Cassino, c1887), by Louis Kinney Harlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cyclopædia of practical quotations, English and Latin; (New York, London [etc.], 1894), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• One thousand popular quotations, comprising the choicest thoughts and sayings of eminent writers of all ages ... (New York, J. S. Ogilvie and company, [c1884]), by John Stuart Ogilvie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of familiar quotations: (London, Whittaker & co., 1860), by L. C. Gent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of sacred quotations; (Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1851), by H. Hastings Weld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations, consisting of elegant extracts on every subject. (Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston, [c1847]), by John T. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of poetical quotations; (Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, [1879]), by John T. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quotations from the British poets: being a pocket dictionary of their most admired passage. (Philadelphia, R. W. Pomeroy, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy dictionary of poetical quotations, (New York, T. Y. Crowell & co., [1901]), by George Whitefield Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of quotations from English and American poets : based upon Bohn's edition revised, corrected, and enlarged : twelve hundred quotations added from American authors / (New York : T.Y. Crowell & Co., c1883), by Anna Lydia Ward and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls of thought, religious and philosophical, gathered from old authors ... (New York, Delisser & Procter, 1859), by Frederick] Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dictionary of quotations; (Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs & co., [1908]), by Norman MacMunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of the world's best literature. Containing biographical sketches of 133 authors, with 1,500 choice extracts from their productions. (Lancaster, Pa., Inquirer Printing and Publishing Co., 1886), by B. Frank Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• For thy good cheer; (New York, The Dodge publishing company, [1903]), by Jessie K] Freeman, Sarah S. B. Yule, and Evelyn Stevens Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts; (New York, Dodge publishing co., [1901]), by Jessie K.] Freeman, Sarah S. B. Yule, and Oakland Fabiola hospital association (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; (Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and John F. Addington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations. Prize selections, being familiar quotations from English and American poets from Chaucer to the present time, selected and arranged with index by C.W. Moulton. (Boston, D. Lothrop Co., [c1887]), by Charles Wells Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British Parnassus, or, A compleat common-place-book of English poetry : containing the most genuine, instructive, diverting and sublime thoughts : viz. allegories, comparisons, similitudes, aphorisms moral and political, characters and descriptions of persons, passions, places and things, that are in the works of our most celebrated poets, alphabetically digested, and brought down to the present time : to which is prefix'd, a dictionary of rhymes more copious than any hitherto extant : in two volumes / ([London] : Printed by J. Nutt ... and sold by J. Pemberton ... and J. Morphew ..., 1714), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Many thoughts of many minds. (New York, G. W. Carleton & co.; [etc., etc.], 1882), by George W. Carleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Author's calendar. 1889. ([Boston, Greenough, Hopkins & Cushing, 1888]), by Alice Flora Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of similes [electronic resource] / (Toronto : T. Allen, 1916), by Frank J. Wilstach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What's what! [electronic resource] / ([Winnipeg? : s.n., 1920?]), by Albert Dennis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stokes' cyclopædia of familiar quotations [electronic resource] : containing five thousand selections from six hundred authors, with a complete general index and an index of authors / (Toronto : Musson, [c1907?]), by Elford Eveleigh Treffry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tarteisms [electronic resource] : gems from the sayings of Hon. J. I. Tarte, a minister in the cabinet of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of the loyal British colony of Canada. ([S.l. : s.n., 1900?]), by Joseph Israël Tarte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quotations and original sentiments [electronic resource]. (St. John, N.B. : Fair of Nations, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oshawa book of favorite quotations [electronic resource]. ([Oshawa, Ont.? : Vindicator Print.], 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quotations [electronic resource] / ([British Columbia? : s.n., 1910?]), by B.C.) St. Andrew's Woman's Guild (Vancouver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Choice thoughts; or, selections from nearly one hundred and fifty different authors, for use of high schools for reading, recitation, and analysis, (New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1880), by Charles Northend and I. N. Carleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar quotations: a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. (Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1895), by John Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little booke of poets' parleys : being a set of conversations between sundry pairs of poets assenting or anon dissenting in conveying to one another their minds on various subjects / (New York : T.Y. Crowell, 1903), by Helen Archibald Clarke and Charlotte Endymion Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copius selection from the best modern British and American poets. (Philadelphia, 1871), by John F. Addington, ed. by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from various authors, and fragments of table-talk; afternoons at L******** ... (Oxford, E.B. Gardner, E.P. Hall, and J.H. Stacy, 1873), by E. L. Hussey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A year of ideals for every-day living / (Boston ; New York [etc.] : The Pilgrim Press, 1909), by Delia Lyman Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights : six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies /, by Charles E. Little (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclopædia of quotations: a treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs. Authors, 931; subjects, 1393; quotations, 10,299. (Philadelphia, D. McKay, [1894]), by Adam Wooléver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cyclopedia of practical quotations, English, Latin, and modern foreign languages ... (New York [etc.] Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1896), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and modern familiar quotations from the Greek, Latin, and modern languages. (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polonius: a collection of wise saws and modern instances, (London, Moring, 1905), by Edward FitzGerald and S. S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of golden thoughts, (London, Macmillan and co., 1870), by Henry Attwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasury of thought. Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors. (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1894), by Maturin Murray Ballou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Borrowings / (San Francisco : William Doxey, 1891), by Cairns Collection of American Women Writers and Calif. Ladies First Unitarian Church of Oakland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature, (Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1915, c1914), by John Bartlett and Nathan Haskell Dole (page images at HathiTrust)
• For His sake; thoughts for Easter day and every day. (Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1902), by Anna E. Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls; or, The world's laconics. Being choice thoughts of the best authors, in prose and poetry. (Boston, B.B. Russell; Philadelphia, Quaker-City Publishing House; [etc., etc.], 1872), by Tryon Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dictionary of legal quotations, or, Selected dicta of English chancellors and judges from the earliest periods to the present time : extracted mainly from reported decisions, and embracing many epigrams and quaint sayings : with explanatory notes and references / ([Buffalo, N.Y. : Hein, 1984]), by James William Norton-Kyshe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cyclopædia of practical quotations, English and Latin; with an appendix containing proverbs from the Latin and modern foreign languages; law and ecclesiastical terms and significations; names, dates and nationality of quoted authors, etc., with copious indexes. (New York, London, Funk & Wagnalle., 1889), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The year book of English authors; (New York, H.M. Caldwell Co., [cop. 1894]), by Ida Scott Taylor McKinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights, six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies [electronic resource] : with twenty thousand cross-references, and a general index, also an index of personal names / (Toronto; New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1896), by Charles E. Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pioneer gathering of books of a sententious character, comprising proverbs, parables, sage summaries and saws [electronic resource] : being the contents of the Log shanty book-shelf for the year 1893, in the Pioneer's Lodge, Exhibition Park, Toronto / ([Toronto? : s.n.], 1893), by Henry Scadding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catch words of cheer / (Chicago : McClurg, 1906, [c1905]), by Sara Anderson Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catch words of cheer. (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & company, 1907), by Sara Anderson Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daily thoughts from Horace / (London : G. Bell, 1907), by Horace and Frederick Henry Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights : six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies ... / (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1892, c1886), by Charles E. Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of English poetry; (London, Printed for Hitch and Hawes, 1762), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of English poetry. Containing: I. Rules for making verses. II. A collection of the most natural, agreeable and sublime thoughts, viz. allusions, similes, descriptions and characters of persons and things, that are to be found in the best English poets. III. A dictionary of rhymes. (London, Printed for O. Loyd, T. Varnam and J. Osborn, W. Mears, J. Brown and F. Clay, and J. Hooke, 1718), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of English poetry / (London : Printed by S. Buckley and sold by J. Churchill [etc.], 1714), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of English poetry: vol. the IIId and IVth, which, with the two former volumes, make a compleat common-place-book of English poetry, containing the most natural, instructive, diverting and sublime thoughts ... that are in the works of our most celebrated poets, ancient and modern, alphabetically digested and brought down to the present time ... (London, Taylor, 1718), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary extracts from English and other works; collected during half a century: together with original matter / (London : Wm. E. Painter, [1847]), by John Poynder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs : authors, 931 ; subjects, 1393 ; quotations, 10, 200 / (Philadelphia : Claxton & Co., 1881, c1876), by Adam Woolbever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson. With copious indexes: authors, 550; subjects, 435; quotations, 13,600. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1882), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The handbook of quotations : gleanings from the English and American fields of poetic literature / (Philadelphia : David McKay, c1913), by Edith B. Ordway (page images at HathiTrust)
• How heroes of fiction propose and how heroines reply : together with familiar quotations in poetry and prose ; with parallel passages from the most famous writers of the world. (New York : P. F. Collier Publisher, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quotations for occasions (New York, Century, 1896), by Katharine B. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of poetical quotations, or, Elegant extracts on every subject / (Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1856, c1847), by John T. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of poetical quotations: consisting of elegant extracts on every subject. (Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1847), by John T. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quintessence of English poetry, or, a collection of all the beautiful passages in our poems and plays, from the celebrated Spencer to 1688 ... / (London : Printed for Olive Payne [etc.], 1740), by William Oldys and Thomas Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors, with parallel passages from various writers ancient and modern; (Liverpool, E. Howell, 1881), by John Cooper Grocott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1835), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. by Henry Nelson Coleridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hive: or, A collection of thoughts on civil, moral, sentimental and religious subjects: selected from the writings of near one hundred of the best authors of different nations; but chiefly from the English writers. Intended as a repository of sententious, ingenious, and pertinent sayings, in verse and prose... (Hartford, Lincoln & Gleason, printers, Printed for and sold by Oliver D. Cooke, 1803) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English epigrams and epitaphs / (London : Chapman & Hall, 1897), by Aubrey Stewart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carleton's new hand-book of popular quotations. A book of ready reference for such familiar words, phrases and expressions as are oftenest quoted and met with in general literature; together with their authorship and position in the original. Also, a list of familiar quotations from the Latin, French and other languages. (New York, G. W. Dillingham, [1877?]), by Geo. W. Carleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wit and wisdom in an up-to-date quotation book, ([Milwaukee, Printed by C. F. Schutz], c1917), by Charles Frederick Schutz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of quotations, from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian languages: also including maxims, proverbs, law phrases, family mottoes, & c., carefully translated into English, with illustrations, historical and idiomatic. (London, E.T. Gover, 1858), by D E. Macdonnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poor Richard's anthology of thoughts on charity and relative subjects. (Washington, 1950), by Christian Frederick Kleinknecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quotations. (Philadelphia : Penn Pub, 1894), by Agnes H. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems of literature, liberty and patriotism : a collection of sixteen hundred choice, graded memory gems, supplemented with three hundred maxims, mottoes and proverbs / (Highmore, S. D. : Gem Pub. Co., [1900?]), by Paul De Vere (page images at HathiTrust)
• By the way. (Boston Clarke & Carruth, 1887), by comp Four friends and comp F. F. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cyclopedia of practical quotations, English and Latin, (New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1890), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of golden thoughts, (London, Macmillan and co., 1894), by Henry Attwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A garland of quiet thoughts / (New York : F. A. Stokes, [1912?]), by J. Ellis and H. Shaylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beauties of the English drama; digested alphabetically according to the date of their performances. Consisting of the most celebrated passages, soliloques, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties contained in the works of Shakespeare, Johnson [and others] (London, G. Robinson, 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oracles from the poets : a fanciful diversion for the drawing-room / (New York ; London : Wiley and Putnam, 1845), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of English poetry : containing, I. Rules for making verses. II. A dictionary of rhymes. III. A collection of the most natural, agreeable, and noble thoughts, viz. allusions, similes, descriptions, and characters, of persons and things; that are to be found in the best English poets. / (London, : Printed for R. Knaplock ... E. Castle ... and B. Tooke ..., 1702), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of select and popular quotations, which are in daily use; taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian languages; translated into English, with illustrations, historical and idiomatic. (Philadelphia, A. Finley, 1818), by David Evans Macdonnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cynosure; being select passages from the most distinguished writers. (London, W. Pickering, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors, . (Liverpool, E. Howell, 1863), by John Cooper Grocott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of English poetry containing (London, Printed for S. Buckley, 1710), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Marching morrows : take heart with the day (Boston : The Merrymount Press, 1901-1905), by Mass.) Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The language and poetry of flowers, and poetic handbook of wedding anniversary pieces, album verses, and valentines. (New York, Hurst & co., [1878?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights; six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies .. (New York London, Funk & Wagnalls company, [19--]), by Charles Eugene Little (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hoyt's new cyclopedia of practical quotations drawn from the speech and literature of all nations, ancient and modern, classic and popular, in English and foreign text. With the names, dates, and nationality of quoted authors, and copious indexes; (New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls company, 1922), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lady's oracle : an elegant pastime for social parties and the family circle / (Philadelphia : H.C. Peck & T. Bliss, 1860, c1854), by Henrietta Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete dictionary of poetical quotations : comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets / (Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1853), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and John F. Addington (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred choice quotations by prominent men and women of the Negro race; a valuable little gift book, ([Washington, Printed by Murray Bros., c1917]), by Mitchell Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The handbook of quotations, (Philadelphia, D. Mckay, 1913), by Edith B. Ordway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations from history; or, historical facts, suitable for illustrations in speaking....Drawn from Gibbon's History of the Roman Empire / (Mystic, Conn. : J.A. Dean, 1884), by James A. Dean and Edward Gibbon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson. With copious indexes: authors, 550; subjects, 435; quotations, 13,600. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1886), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasured thoughts, gleaned from the fields of literature. Designed for the use of schools, homes, reading cirlces, young people's societies, and for private study of choice literature, with a list of the best books for children and young people. By Frank V. Irish. (Columbus, F.V. Irish, [c1892]), by Frank Van Buren Irish (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Truths illustrated by great authors [electronic resource]. A dictionary of nearly four thousand aids to reflection, quotations of maxims, metaphors ... (Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1868), by William M. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty thousand sublime and beautiful thoughts gathered from the roses, clover blossoms, geraniums, violets, morning-glories, and pansies of literature, (New York, The Christian Herald, [c1915]), by Charles Noel Douglas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Other men's minds, or, Seven thousand choice extracts on history, science, philosophy, religion, etc. : selected from the standard authorship of ancient and modern times, and classified in alphabetical order / (Boston : Estes and Lauriat, 1888), by E. Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of thoughts : being a cyclopedia of laconic quotations from the best authors, both ancient and modern / (Detroit : F.B. Dickerson Co., 1902, c1899), by Tryon Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wise sayings of the great and good. (London : G. Routledge, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Day's collacon: an encyclopaedia of prose quotations, consisting of beautiful thoughts, choice extracts and sayings, of the most eminent writers of all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time, together with a comprehensive biographical index of authors, and an alphabetical list of subjects quoted. (London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, [1884?]), by Edward Parsons Day (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of English poetry : containing I. Rules for making verses. II. A collection of the most natural, agreeable, and sublime thouhgts, [sic] viz. allusions, similes, descriptions and characters, of persons and things; that are to be found in the best English poets. III. A dictionary of rhymes. / (London : Printed for Sam. Buckley ..., 1710), by Edward Bysshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morning thoughts to cheer the day / (Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., 1913, c1904), by Maria Hoffman Haven Le Row (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty thousand quotations, prose and poetical; choice extracts on history, science, philosophy, religion, literature, etc. Selected from thestandard authors of ancient and modern times, classified according to subject. (New York : Sully and Kleinteich, 1915), by Charles Noel Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cyclopedia of practical quotations : English, Latin, and modern foreign languages ... / (New York, N.Y. : Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1899, c1896), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights; six thousand quotations from stantard histories and biographies. (London, New York : Funk & Wagnalls, [1908]), by Charles Eugene Little (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What great men have said about women (Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Co., [1922]), by Marcet Haldeman-Julius (page images at HathiTrust)
• About women : what men have said / (New York : G. P. Putnam's sons, c1894), by Rose Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cyclopaedia of practical quotationos, English and Latin : with an appendix containing proverbs from the Latin and modern foreign languages... / (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1889), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treasury, or storehouse of similes : both pleasant, delightful, and profitable, for all estates of men in general : newly collected into heads and commonplaces / (London : Printed by Thomas Creede, [i.e. London] : [R. Dickinson], 1609 ;, [1868]), by Robert Cawdry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose quotations from Socrates to Macaulay : with indexes... / (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1903), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wisdom and beauty from Conrad / (London ; New York : A. Melrose, [1922]), by Joseph Conrad and Mother Mary Reginald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cyclopedia of practical quotations ... (London, 1907-1909), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old friends are best. (Dodge Pub. Co., [1910]), by Richard Brooks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A sentiment in verse for every day in the year, ([St. Louis] Ethical Society of St. Louis, [1906?]), by Walter Lorenzo Sheldon and Ethical society of St. Louis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of poetical quotations. (Philadelphia : J.C. Winston, [191-]), by John T. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of familiar quotations; being a collection of popular extracts and aphorisms from the works of the best authors. (London : Whittaker & Co., 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great and mind-liberating thoughts / (Girard, KS : Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1940), by John Mason, contrib. by Haldeman-Julius Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The William Blake calendar : a quotation from the works of William Blake for every day in the year / (London : F. Palmer, 1913), by William Blake and Thomas Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new dictionary of thoughts; a cyclopedia of quotations from the best authors of the world, both ancient and modern, alphabetically arranged by subjects, (Charlotte, N.C., Britkin, 1927), by Tryon Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cyclopd̆ia of practical quotations, English and Latin, with an appendix containing proverbs from the Latin and modern foreign languages; law and ecclesiastical terms and significations; names, dates and nationality of quoted authors, etc., with copious indexes. (New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1884), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Realistic aphorisms and purple patches. (London, The Pioneer Press, 1922), by John Arthur Fallows (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Polonius : a collection of wise saws and modern instances (Portland, Maine : Thomas B. Mosher, 1901), by Edward FitzGerald, contrib. by Thomas Bird Mosher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catch words of cheer / (Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904), by Sara A. Hubbard and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of burning words of brilliant writers : a cyclopædia of quotations from the literature of all ages / (New York : W.B. Ketcham, [c1895]), by Josiah H. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The optimist's good morning, (Boston, Little, Brown, 1921, c1907), by Florence Hobart Perin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Many thoughts of many minds ; a treasury of quotations from the literature of every land and every age / (New York : The Christian herald, [c1896]), by Louis Klopsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson : With copious indexes ... / (Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & co., 1875), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Queen's birthday book / (London : Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1887), by Alexander Bassano and Mary F. P. Dunbar, contrib. by Farran Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cyclopædia of practical quotations, English and Latin, with an appendix containing proverbs from the Latin and modern foreign languages, law and ecclesiastical terms and significations; names, dates and nationality of quoted authors, etc., with copious indexes. (New York, I.K. Funk & Co., 1882), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward, and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quotations : a clever compilation of pithy quotations, alphabetically arranged according to sentiment / (Philadelphia : Penn, 1905, c1893), by Agnes H. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous sayings of famous Americans; McKinley, Roosevelt, Harrison, Cleveland, Conkling, Seward, Evarts, Blaine, Grant; (Syracuse, N.Y., Courier printing co., 1901), by James J. Neville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little gems of literature for memorizing (New York : Potter, Ainsworth, c1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory gems for the young; being choice selections from nearly a hundred and fifty different authors ... (New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1879), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesaurus poeticus, or, Poetical treasury of the choicest descriptions, similes, and sentiments, of the most celebrated foreign and American poets / (New-York: : G.C. Morgan, W.B. Gilley, H.I. Megary [i.e., Megarey], R. Lockwood, G. & C. Carvill, E. Bliss & E. White, S.C. Schenck, J.P. Haven, J.B. Stuart, W. Burgess, Jr. G. Long, J.F. Sibell, J.A. Burtus, C. Bartlet, and T. Whybrew., 1826), by Clergyman and printer Sleight & Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Day's collacon: an encyclopaedia of prose quotations, consisting of beautiful thoughts, choice extracts, and sayings, of the most eminent writers of all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time, together with a comprehensive biographical index of authors, and an alphabetical list of subjects quoted. (New York, International printing and publishing office; [etc., etc.], 1884), by Edward Parsons Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rosary of literary wisdom / ([s.l. : s.n.], 1918), by T C Pandit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Respectfully quoted : a dictionary of quotations requested from the Congressional Research Service / (Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1989), by Suzy Platt and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• A translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian and French quotations which occur in Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England, and also in the notes of various editions / (Philadelphia : T. & J.W. Johnson & Co., 1905), by John Winter Jones and William Blackstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A year of good cheer, (Boston, New York, The Pilgrim press, [c1906]), by Delia Lyman Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our breakfast book; wholesome thoughts for every day, (Chicago, P.F. Volland & company, [c1910]), by Mary L. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Keep up your courage; key-notes to success; (Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., [1908]), by Mary Allette Ayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of quotations from the English poets. (London, [New York], G. Bell [& sons], 1895), by Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cyclopædia of practical quotations, English and Latin, with an appendix containing proverbs from the Latin and modern foreign languages, law and ecclesiastical terms and significations; names, dates and nationality of quoted authors, etc., with copious indexes. (New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1882), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The optimist's good morning / (Boston : Little, Brown, c1907), by Florence Hobart Perin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Diamonds from brilliant minds, gems of poesy, quotations and poverbs, (New York, Dempsey & Carroll, 1881), by New York Dempsey & Carroll, ed. by George D. Carroll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The optimist's good morning / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1912, c1907), by Florence Hobart Perin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophic nuggets: Carlyle, Amiel, Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, (New York, Fords, Howard & Hulbert, [1899]), by John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, Henri Frédéric Amiel, and Thomas Carlyle, ed. by Jeanne Gillespie Pennington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of good cheer; a little bundle of cheery thoughts. (Chicago, P.F. Volland, [c1909]), by Edwin Osgood Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Favorites at home and abroad ... (Lynn, Mass., Souvenir publishing company, 1898), ed. by Grace D. Bacheller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of quotations (English) (London, S. Sonnenschein & co., lim.; New York, The Macmillan co., 1899), by Philip Hugh Dalbiac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English proverbs and proverbial phrases collected from the most authentic sources, alphabetically arranged and annotated, with much matter not previously published ... (London, Reeves and Turner, 1907), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Familiar words: an index verborum, or quotation handbook, with parallel passages, of phrases which have become imbedded in our English tongue. (London, S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1866), by J. Hain Friswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dictionary of legal quotations; or, Selected dicta of English chancellors and judges from the earliest periods to the present time. Extracted mainly from reported decisions, and embracing many epigrams and quaint sayings. (London, Sweet and Maxwell, limited, 1904), by James William Norton-Kyshe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Psychological year book; quotations for every day in the year, showing that the power of thought and a right use of the will may attain good results, improve conditions & bring success. (San Francisco, P. Elder and company, [1904]), by Janet Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carleton's hand-book of popular quotations. (New York, G. W. Carleton & co., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Gold nails" to hang memories on; a rhyming review, under their Christian names, of old acquaintances in history, literature and friendship, (New York, T. Y. Crowell & co., [1890]), by Elizabeth Akers Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vexilla regis quotidie (Boston, B. Updike, 1895), by Lucy Bradlee Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of quotations / (London : Swan Sonnenschein, 1903), by Philip Hugh Dalbiac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prose quotations from Socrates to Macaulay : with indexes / (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1876), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson : with copious indexes : authors, 550; subjects, 435; quotations, 13,600 / (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1878, c1873), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopedia of practical quotations drawn from the speech and literature of all nations, ancient and modern, classic and popular, in English and foreign text : With the names, dates, and nationality of quoted authors, and copious indexes. (New York : Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1922), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclopaedia of quotations : treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs. Authors, 931; subjects, 1393; quotations, 10,299 / (Philadelphia : David McKay, [1893]), ed. by Adam Wooléver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of poetical quotations, consisting of elegant extracts on every subject, compiled from various authors, and arranged under appropriate heads, by John T. Watson M.D (Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, [1879]), by John T Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar quotations, with parallel passages from various writers; (London, G. Routledge and sons, limited, [189-?]), by John Cooper Grocott and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lady's oracle; an elegant pastime for social parties and the family circle. (Philadelphia : H. C. Peck & T. Bliss, 1851), by Henrietta Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar words: an index verborum or quotation handbook, with parallel passages, or phrases which have become embedded in our English tongue. (London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877), by J. Hain Friswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleanings: A Christmas card for 1898. ([n.p.] : Printed for private circulation, 1898?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Needles and pins. (New York : printed for the author by J. J. Little & Ives Co., 1909), by Mina Deane Halsey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A year of sacred song : with selections in prose from sources old and new / (New York : Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1895), by Martha Capps Oliver and Raphael Tuck and Sons Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sovereign woman versus mere man; a medley of quotations, (San Francisco, P. Elder, [c1905]), by Jennie Day Haines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of forensic quotations, (New York : J. F. Taylor & company, 1903), by Leon Mead and F. Newell Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights; six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies ... (New York, London : Funk & Wagnalls, 1888 [c1886]), by Charles E. Little (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The wisdom of Oscar Wilde / (New York : Brentano's, 1906), by Oscar Wilde and Temple Scott, ed. by Temple Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar English quotations. (London : Whittaker & co., 1877), by L. C. Gent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shaver's calendar; being three hundred and sixty-five excellent conceits chosen from English poets and dramatists. (London : Bullen, 1906), by Frank Sidgwick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionary of quotations (English) (London : S. Sonnenschein & co., limited; New York, The Macmillan co., 1908), by Philip Hugh Dalbiac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mosaics of human life. (Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866), by Elizabeth A. Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carleton's hand-book of popular quotations. A book of ready reference for such familiar words, phrases and expressions as are oftenest quoted and met with in general literature; together with their authorship and position in the original. Also, a carefully prepared list of popular quotations from the Latin, French and other languages. (New York : G. W. Carleton & co., 1880, c1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The white wallet / (London : T.F. Unwin, 1912), by Pamela Grey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The spirit of english tragedy. (London : Simpkin and Marshall, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great truths by great authors. (Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1879), by William M. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The home book of quotations, classical and modern, (New York, Dodd, Mead & company, 1935), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• For thy good cheer; a collection of helpful and beautiful thoughts, (New York, The Dodge publishing company, [1904]), by Jessie K. Freeman, Sarah S. B. Yule, Evelyn Stevens Wilson, and Oakland Fabiola hospital association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty thousand quotations, prose and poetical ; choice extracts on history, science, philosophy, religion, literature, etc. Selected from the standard authors of ancient and modern times, classified according to subject. (London, George G. Harrap, 1916), by Charles Noel Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of Jewish thoughts selected and arranged by the chief rabbi (Dr. J. H. Hertz) (London, New York [etc.] H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1921), by Joseph H. Hertz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionary of quotations, English / (London : S. Sonnenschein ; New York : Macmillan, 1897), by Philip Hugh Dalbiac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vexilla regis quotidie / (Boston : privately printed, 1893), by Lucy Bradlee Stone, Daniel Berkeley Updike, and Merrymount Press. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors, with parallel passages from various writers ancient and modern; (Liverpool, E. Howell, 1871), by John Cooper Grocott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights : a volume of six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies. (New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1886), by Charles Eugene Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• On active service : a book of golden thoughts / (London ; New York ; Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]), by Alexander Ketterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• :Hitokti, or, a selection of proverbs and quotations in English / (Benares : Freeman & Co., 1910), by Prabhu Narayana Singh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wisdom and beauty from Conrad / (London ; New York : A. Melrose, 1915), by Joseph Conrad, M. Harriet M. com Capes, and Mother Mary Reginald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recipe for a happy life, (San Francisco, P. Elder and Company, [c1911]), by Marie West King, John Henry Nash, Queen Marguerite, Paul Elder and Company. Book producer, and Tomoyé Press. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precious stones : aids to reflection, from prose writers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (London : [publisher not identified], 1853), by Robert Aris Willmott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary brevities, (Boston, New York [etc.] D.C. Heath & Company, [c1913]), by John Green Wight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyt's new cyclopedia of practical quotations drawn from the speech and literature of all nations, ancient and modern, classic and popular, in English and foreign text. With the names, dates, and nationality of quoted authors, and copious indexes; (New York London, Funk & Wagnalls company, 1923), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British muse, or, A collection of thoughts, moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ... (London, F. Cogan [etc.], 1738), by Thomas Hayward and William Oldys (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dictionary of quotations from English and American poets : based upon Bohn's edition / (New York : T. Y. Crowell, c1883), by Henry George Bohn and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horæ vacivae. A thought-book of the wise spirits of all ages and all countries, fit for all men and all hours. (Boston, J. Munroe, 1851), by James Elmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, with indexes : authors 544, subjects 571, quotations 8810 / (Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1968), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world's laconics; or, The best thoughts of the best authors. (New York, M. W.. Dodd, 1853), by Tryon Edwards and William Buell Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayings. Proverbs. Maxims. Mottoes. (Milwaukee, C.F. Schutz, c1915), by C. F. Schutz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hive; or, A collection of thoughts on civil, moral, sentimental and religious subjects: selected from the writings of near one hundred of the best authors of different nations; but chiefly from the English writers. Intended as a repository of sententious, ingenious, and pertinent sayings, in verse and prose ... (Hartford, Oliver D. Cooke, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The banquet book; a classified collection of quotations designed for general reference, and also as an aid in the preparation of the toast list, the after-dinner speech, and the occasional address; together with suggestions concerning the menu and certain other details connected with the proper ordering of the banquet, (New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902), by Cuyler Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of poetical quotations / (New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1883), by Henry G. Bohn and Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar quotations: being an attempt to trace to their source : passages and phrases in common use. (Boston : Little, Brown, 1868), by John Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The international encyclopedia of prose and poetical quotations from the literature of the world, including the following languages: English, Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Persian, Italian, German, Chinese, Hebrew, and others, under one alphabetical arrangement; with a complete concordance to the quotations, indexes of the authors quoted and topical indexes to subjects, with cross references, (Philadelphia, J.C. Winston Co., [c1908]), by William Shepard Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• For His sake; thoughts for Easter day and every day, (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1900), ed. by Anna E. Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms from the writings of Herbert Spencer / (New York : D. Appleton, 1894), by Herbert Spencer and Julia Raymond Gingell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty thousand quotations, prose and poetical; choice extracts on history, science, philosophy, religion, literature, etc. Selected from the standard authors of ancient and modern times, classifid according to subject. (Oyster Bay, N.Y., N. Doubleday, 1917), by Charles Noel Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson. With copious indexes: authors, 550; subjects, 435; quotations, 13,600. (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co., 1873), by S. Austin Allibone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred quotations; or, Scripture themes & thoughts as paraphrased by the poets. (Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1865), by H. Hastings Weld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of sacred quotations ; or, scripture themes and thoughts as paraphrased by the poets, selected and arranged by H. Hastings Weld. (Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blackiston, 1851), by Horatio Hastings Weld (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopaedia of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching embracing mythology, analogies, legends, parables, emblems, metaphors, similies, allegories proverbs; classic, historic, and religious anecodtes, etc. / (New York : Palmer, c1870, 1871), by Elon comp Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of quotations from the English poets. (London, Pub. for the author by G. Bell and sons, 1881), by Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cyclopaedia of practical quotations, English and Latin. With an appendix containing proverbs from the Latin and modern foreign languages; law and ecclesiastical terms and significations; names, dates, and nationality of quoted authors, etc. (London, R.D. Dickinson, 1882), by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ed. by Anna Lydia Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room, ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Quips and Quiddities: A Quintessence of Quirks, Quaint, Quizzical, and Quotable, ed. by William Davenport Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anima Poetæ, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. by Ernest Hartley Coleridge (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Optimist's Good Morning, ed. by Florence Hobart Perin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Art of English Poetry (1708), by Edward Bysshe, ed. by A. Dwight Culler (Gutenberg ebook)
• Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, ed. by George Whitefield Powers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ... (London : Printed by W. Wilson and J. Streater, for John Spencer ..., 1658), by John Spencer and Thomas Fuller (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• VVits labyrinth, or, A briefe and compendious abstract of most witty, ingenious, wise, and learned sentences and phrases together with some hundreds of most pithy, facetious and patheticall complementall expressions / collected, compiled and set forth for the benefit, pleasure or delight of all, but principally the English nobility and gentry by J.S., gent. (London : Printed for M. Simmons, 1648), by James Shirley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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