Is it possible for a fat book of quotations to be boring

Is it possible for a fat book of quotations to be boring? I would not have thought so, but here is an example:

The New International Websters Pocket QuotationThe New International Webster's Pocket Quotations Dictionary of the English Language, New Revised Edition .

I love books of quotations, Bartlett's etc. Love them, and yet, you open to a random page and read

Desire:
We trifle when we set limits to our desire, for nature has set none. Christian Nestell Bovee. I am including this book as an amazing fact.