- Bartlett, John. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
- Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.
- Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
- These 41,480 selections divided into 1,500 categories include thousands of authors and an entire volume’s-worth of Shakespeare.
- Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
- These 28,732 selections feature non-English language sources including proverbs by a master Encyclopedist.
- Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
- These 6,700 quotations in 2,000 categories represent an encyclopedic classification of the canon’s eternal passages.
- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
- The 21,700 quotations in this standard reference bible, organized by major category, feature original language with translations.
- Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
- These 9,000 often lengthy selections highlight English prose geniuses like Addison, Burke, Johnson, Locke and Macaulay.
- Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
- The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate.
- Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1989.
- 1,200 very readable expository selections from 400 authors.
- Christy, Robert. 1887. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages.
- The 20,500 selections in this classic reference work comprise an encyclopedic scope of English proverbs.
- Hazlitt, William Carew. 1907. English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases.
- These 10,764 entries feature explanation of the hidden meanings of folk wisdom repeated unwittingly.
- Marvin, Dwight Edwards. 1916. Curiosities in Proverbs.
- The two thousand entries in this uniquely multicultural collection feature comparison of similar proverbs in different languages.
- Wilstach, Frank J. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes.
- Wilstach spent over 20 years tracing more than 16,000 similies to 2,000 sources and categorizing them under some 3,000 subjects.
- See also French Aphorists:
- La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, La Bruyère, Vauvenargues, Chamfort, Joubert, & French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness