The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

new out of Africa
Ruinis imminentibus musculi praemigrant.
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
‘Historia Naturalis’ bk. 8, ch. 103
Optimumque est, ut volgo dixere, aliena insania frui.
And the best plan is, as the popular saying was, to profit by the folly of others.
‘Historia Naturalis’ bk. 18, ch. 31
Addito salis grano
With the addition of a grain of salt.
‘Historia Naturalis’ bk. 23, ch. 149; commonly quoted in the form Cum grano salis With a grain of salt
4.71 William Plomer 1903-73
Out of that bungled, unwise war
An alp of unforgiveness grew.
‘The Boer War’ (1960)
A family portrait not too stale to record
Of a pleasant old buffer, nephew to a lord,
Who believed that the bank was mightier than the sword,
And that an umbrella might pacify barbarians abroad:
Just like an old liberal
Between the wars.
‘Father and Son: 1939’ (1945)
With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores,
And third-rate conversation without one single pause:
Just like a young couple
Between the wars.
‘Father and Son: 1939’ (1945)
On a sofa upholstered in panther skin
Mona did researches in original sin.
‘Mews Flat Mona’ (1960)
A rose-red sissy half as old as time.
‘Playboy of the Demi-World: 1938’ (1945).
4.72 Plutarch A.D. c.50-c.120
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks
little of God.
‘Parallel Lives’ ‘Lysander’ ch. 8.
4.73 Edgar Allan Poe 1809-49
This maiden she lived with no other thought