Bartlott's familier Questions: A collection of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in an ancient and Modern literature

Bartlett's Quotations, the classic and indispensable reference has, for the sixteenth edition, been completely revised and updated by preeminent Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This distinguished new edition, the most thorough revision in decades, contains 340 authors new to Bartlett's, and is an unrivaled resource not for just who said it, but also for who said it first. Bartlett's Sixteenth is truly a map through our culture and history. Here is a sampling of the more than 1,600 new quotations, ranging from classic to contemporary sources.