In the fifteenth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( 1980 ), nine sections of " Ulysses ", comprising 36 of the poem's 70 lines, are quoted, compared to only six in the ninth edition ( 1891 ).

The " Familiar Preface " Conrad wrote for it includes the often quoted lines:

Quotations are used for a variety of reasons: to illuminate the meaning or to support the arguments of the work in which it is being quoted, to provide direct information about the work being quoted ( whether in order to discuss it, positively or negatively ), to pay homage to the original work or author, to make the user of the quotation seem well-read, and / or to comply with copyright law.

According to a 60 Minutes profile, he is also the most quoted living man in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations.

Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.

:* Quotations from a number of the previous sections fleetingly reappear ; the Grossvater Tanz, identified by Schumann in the score as a " Theme from the 17th Century " and intended to represent those holding to old-fashioned, outdated and inartistic ideals ( ie ( Philistines ), quoted from his earlier work Papillons, Op.

The chorus is quoted in The Yale Book of Quotations:

Of these, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, The Yale Book of Quotations and The MacMillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases are considered among the most reliable and comprehensive sources.

", appears in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and became a catchphrase.

That year, he was appointed to revise and enlarge Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( 11th edition in 1937 and 12th edition in 1948 ).

* Morley edited two editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: 1937 ( 11th ) and 1948 ( 12th.

According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Voss is the most likely source for the phrase Wein, Weib und Gesang, or, in English, wine, women and song.

* Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Morison's first marriage to Elizabeth S. Greene produced four children — one of whom, Emily Morison Beck, became editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

" This song found it's way into Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

) Thus the quote " Nice guys finish last " has long been attributed to Durocher, including an entry in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

In the twentieth century and to the present day Colton has been read most frequently perhaps in quotation books, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, where many of his aphorisms have been preserved.

Southey's version of the quote was taken up by John Bartlett ( 1820-1905 ), the compiler of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( ninth edition, 1902, p. 853 ).

" is credited to Griffith in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( 16th edition, 1992 ).

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* John Bartlett ( publisher ) ( 1820 – 1905 ), publisher of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

John Bartlett ( 1820 – 1905 ), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

John Bartlett ( June 14, 1820 – December 3, 1905 ) was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death.

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* Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: Inconsistent usage.

" Variations on this quote have been attributed to Martin Luther, although Bartlett's Familiar Quotations names Johann Heinrich Voss ( 1751 – 1826 ) as a more likely source.

John Russell Bartlett should not be confused with John Bartlett, publisher of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

It was very popular throughout the 19th century — its popularity was sufficient for two quotations to appear in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and for Lewis Carroll to refer to it in his poem Melancholetta.

He began keeping a commonplace book of quotations to answer queries and in 1855 privately printed the first edition of his Familiar Quotations.

His Familiar Quotations is now in its seventeenth edition and is still published by Little, Brown.