| Autor | Sprüche |
| Aurel, Mark | 47 |
| Bacon, Francis | 49 |
| Bierce, Ambrose | 50 |
| Bruyère, Jean de la | 63 |
| Börne, Ludwig | 66 |
| Chamfort, Nicolas | 50 |
| Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von | 188 |
| Feuchtersleben, Ernst von | 25 |
| Gracián y Morales, Baltasar | 46 |
| Hebbel, Christian Friedrich | 130 |
| Hofmannsthal, Hugo von | 28 |
| Joubert, Joseph | 53 |
| Kafka, Franz | 36 |
| Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph | 151 |
| Montaigne, Michel de | 61 |
| Morgenstern, Christian | 117 |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich | 177 |
| Novalis | 71 |
| Pascal, Blaise | 64 |
| Paul, Jean | 156 |
| Renard, Jules | 24 |
| Rochefoucauld, François de la | 131 |
| Schnitzler, Arthur | 45 |
| Seneca | 114 |
| Seume, Johann Gottfried | 25 |
| Shaw, George Bernard | 128 |
| Swift, Jonathan | 42 |
| Tucholsky, Kurt | 97 |
| Twain, Mark | 155 |
| Valéry, Paul | 11 |
| Vauvenargues, Marquis de | 69 |
| Wilde, Oscar | 198 |