John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
8526 Plautus 254-184 BC John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 8526 |
| AUTHOR: | Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Truculentus. Act iv. Sc. 4, 15. (868.) |
| Note 1. See Chaucer, Quotation 30. [back] |