📚 Quotations

Books with quotations on their catalogue record, first published between 1689 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject quotations in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 22,372 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature	John Bartlett	1855	185
	Mao Tŝe-tung's quotations	Mao Zedong	1962	58
	Table-talk	John Selden	1689	53
	Farm ballads	Will Carleton	1800	34
	Geflügelte Worte	Georg Büchmann	1871	24
	Life's Little Instruction Book	H. Jackson Brown, Jr.	1991	24
	All men are brothers	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	1958	21
	Psychologische Betrachtungen	Carl Gustav Jung	1949	14
	The Tao of Warren Buffett	Mary Buffett	2006	13
	Happiness is a warm puppy	Charles M. Schulz	1962	12
	The tao of travel	Paul Theroux	2011	12
	Shakespearian quotations in everyday use	William Shakespeare	1927	11
	Warren Buffett speaks	Warren Buffett	1997	11
	Modern dictionary of quotations	Robin Hyman	1962	10
	The Quotable Woman	Elaine Partnow	1978	10
	For girls only	Carol Weston	1998	10
	Leaves of Gold	Clyde Francis Lytle	1948	8
	The wit & wisdom of Mark Twain	Mark Twain	1987	8
	Thoreau's Thoughts	Henry David Thoreau	1890	7
	The Experts speak	Christopher Cerf	1984	7
	365 Days of Wonder	R. J. Palacio	2008	7
	Kids say the darndest things!	Art Linkletter	1957	6
	The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister	George R. R. Martin	2013	6
	Little grey cells	Agatha Christie	2015	6
	Words of Wisdom	William Safire	1989	5
	Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet	Mineke Schipper	2003	5
	Art of virtue	Benjamin Franklin	1955	4
	What Luther says	Martin Luther	1959	4
	Quote...Unquote	Nigel Rees	1978	4
	At knit's end	Stephanie Pearl-McPhee	2005	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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