Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

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

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, The. 4th ed. Edited by Angela Partington. New York Oxford University Press, 1992. 

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. 

Attributed to Will Rogers (e.g.. New York Times, 10/7/84, p. B4), Mark Twain, and Josh Billings (Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 1979, p. 49), among others. 

Horace Walpole to the Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 August 1776 (Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd edition [London/New York/Toronto Oxford University Press, 1953], p. 558, item 27). 

Determined to prevent the rewriting of history, I immediately returned to the reference shelves to look through every remaining book of quotations I could lay my hands on, bdTore somebody else did. In the last one on the shelf. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotas... 

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