Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
by Elizabeth Knowles | 
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
by Clifton Fadiman | 
The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
by Robert Byrne |
The Synonym Finder
by J. I. Rodale | 
The Great Thoughts
by George Seldes |
The Describer's Dictionary
by David Grambs |
Descriptionary
by Marc McCutcheon |
Roget A to Z
by Robert L. Chapman |
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer |
Bernstein's Reverse Dictionary
by Theodore M. Bernstein |
Garner's Modern American Usage
by Bryan A. Garner | 
The Poetic Edda
by Snorri Sturluson | 
John Brown's Body
by Stephen Vincent Benet | 
Lays of Ancient Rome
by Thomas Babbington Macaulay | 
Civil War Poetry and Prose
by Walt Whitman | 
The Allegory of Love
by C. S. Lewis |
The New Negro
by Alain Locke | 
Keats
by Andrew Motion | 
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg | 
Metamorphoses
by Ovid |
This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan.