quote · Words worth keeping
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Pliny The Elder
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 51 AD · classical
author lifetime midpoint; not necessarily a composition date.