When you doubt, abstain. [ Zoroaster ]

When the age is in the wit is out. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III Sc. 5 ]

When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy. [ Cervantes ]

I always get the better when I argue alone. [ Goldsmith ]

Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden. [ Pascal ]

When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action. [ Savage ]

Danger comes the sooner when it is despised. [ Syrus ]

When anger rises, think of the consequences. [ Confucius ]

When a new book comes out, I read an old one. [ Rogers ]

When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. [ Dryden ]

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. [ Ariosto ]

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty. [ Hannah More ]

We must be brief when traitors brave the field. [ William Shakespeare ]

What careth she for hearts when once possessed? [ Byron ]

We are near waking when we dream that we dream. [ Novalis ]

When you are at sea, sail; when at land, settle. [ Proverb ]

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down. [ Macaulay ]

When pain can't bless, heaven quits as in despair. [ Young ]

Women laugh when they can and weep when they will. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Age is rarely despised but when it is contemptible. [ Johnson ]

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold, when present, causes fear; when absent, grief. [ Proverb ]

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition. [ Franklin ]

Even when the bird walks one feels that it has wings. [ Lemierre ]

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [ Goldoni ]

When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can. [ Terrence ]

A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she will. [ Proverb ]

When my friends are one-eyed, I look at their profile. [ Joubert ]

One can stop when he ascends, but not when he descends. [ Napoleon I ]

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery. [ Gotthold ]

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

We all, when we are well, give good advice to the sick. [ Terence ]

Speak when you are spoken to, come when you are called. [ Proverb ]

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. [ Duchess d'Abrantes ]

Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. [ Wordsworth ]

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone. [ Auerbach ]

Enter upon love when you will, but give over when you can. [ Proverb ]

He is safe from danger who is on his guard even when safe. [ Syrus ]

Brevity is very good, when we are, or are not, understood. [ Butler ]

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Heaven oft in mercy smites, even when the blow severest is. [ Joanna Baillie ]

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe. [ Ouida ]

Children, when little, make parents fools, when great, mad. [ Proverb ]

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person? [ Plautus ]

There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. [ W. J. Mickle ]

One is alone in a crowd when one suffers, or when one loves. [ Rochepedre ]

He who kills a lion when absent, fears a mouse when present. [ Proverb ]

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. [ Haliburton ]

Speak when you're spoken to, and drink when you're drunken to. [ Proverb ]

The honor is overpaid when he that did the act is commentator. [ Shirley ]

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [ Plautus ]

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. [ Shakespeare ]

Better never have been handsome when young, than ugly when old. [ Proverb ]

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. [ Prof. Jowett ]

We thought her dying while she slept, and sleeping when she died. [ Hood ]

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! [ William Shakespeare ]

Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering and innocent. [ Byron ]

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. [ Jefferson ]

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read. [ Seneca ]

When fortune fawneth, she biteth; when she is angry, she woundeth. [ Proverb ]

Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes plainest. [ Sterne ]

When love begins to sicken and decay it useth an enforced ceremony. [ Shakespeare ]

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. [ Publius Syrus ]

Conversation, which, when it is best, is a series of intoxications. [ Emerson ]

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance. [ George Sand ]

If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old. [ Proverb ]

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. [ Donne ]

When we first see the light, we weep; and when we leave it, we groan. [ Proverb ]

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. [ Joubert ]

The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop. [ Voltaire ]

When we do ill the devil tempts us, when we do nothing, we tempt him. [ Proverb ]

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple. [ Thoreau ]

Fickle as the wind, I love Tibur when at Rome, and Rome when at Tibur. [ Horace ]

He that kills a man when he is drunk, must be hanged when he is sober. [ Proverb ]

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear. [ Dryden ]

He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). [ Horace ]

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There are certain epochs in art when simplicity is audacious originality. [ Achilles Poincelot ]

Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

But look for ruin when a coward wins; For fear and cruelty are ever twins. [ Aleyn ]

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. [ Beaconsfield ]

Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. [ William Shakespeare ]

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. [ La Bruyere ]

Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when grown up. [ Proverb ]

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless. [ Seneca ]

He that is needy when he is married, shall scarce be rich when he is buried. [ Proverb ]

When you receive a kindness, remember it; when you do a kindness, forget it. [ Proverb ]

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. [ Goethe ]

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. [ Bible ]

When the sun shines nobody minds it, but when it is eclipsed all consider him. [ Proverb ]

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. [ Livy ]

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. [ William Law ]

There was a time when the world acted upon books; now books act upon the world. [ Joubert ]

When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about. [ Quesnel ]

Fear is my vassal, when I frown he flies; A hundred times in life a coward dies. [ Marston ]

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]