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Alexander Severus: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

When a building is about to fall down all the mice desert it.— PLINY THE ELDER — Natural History. Bk. VIII. Sec. CIII.

When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.— PLATO

When once removed from sight, soon perishes from remembrance.— THOS. À KEMPIS — Imitation of Christ. Bk. I. Ch. XXIII. Thos. Dibdin's

trans. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. X.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 202.

When the age is in, the wit is out.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 37.

When the candles are out all women are fair.— PLUTARCH — Conjugal Precepts.

When the lion's skin cannot prevail, a little of the fox's must be used. aa.— LYSANDER — Laconic Apophthegms.

Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. bb.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sec. IV. Memb. 1.

Subsec. I. Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table. cc.— EMERSON — Quoted in American Scholar.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. dd.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard. 1734.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest. ff.— LYLY — Euphues and His England.

P. 287. Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L. 109.

While you seek to avoid Charybdis you fall upon Scylla. hh.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. XII. L. 85.