Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

Quotation books Lists of quotations arranged by author, source, keyword, subject, and so on Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Bartlett s Familiar Quotations... 

J.Baitlett, Bartlett s Familiar Quotations, 16thed., J. Kaplan, Ed., Little, Brown, Boston, 1992,... 

Kaplan, J., ed., 2002. Bartlett s Familiar Quotations, 17th Edition. Little Brown, New York. (Cf. William Jefferson Clinton. Grand jury testimony, August 17, 1998.)... 

G. J. Danton, quoted in Bartlett s Familiar Quotations, edited by Justin Kaplan, 16th ed., p. 364. 

Two sources for quotations simply refer this phrase (Natura abhorret vacuum) to a Latin proverb [B. Evans, Dictionary of Quotations, Delacorte Press, New York, 1968, p. 720, and Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, R. Collison and M. Collison (eds.). Facts on File, New York, 1980, p. 241]. One source attributes it to Gargantua in 1534 but from an ancient Latin source [A. Partington (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 1992, p. 534 Bartlett s Familiar Quotations, 16th ed., J. Kaplan (ed.). Little, Brown, Boston, 1992, p. 277] attributes the phrase to Spinoza in 1677. Just thought you d want to know this one for the next Happy Hour. 

Abraham Lincoln, From a letter (1858) quoted in Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett (Eds.), [Bartlett s] Familiar Quotations, p. 455. 

William James. From a letter to W. Lutoslawski in 1906. In Bartlett s Familiar Quotations, 17th edition (J. Kaplin, ed.), Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 2002, p. 581, line 3. 

Bartlett s Familiar Quotations, 17th edition. Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 2002, p. 291—4. 

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