Ovid famous quotes

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
-- Ovid

#Integrity

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
-- Ovid

#Running #Horse

Love is no assignment for cowards.
-- Ovid

#Marriage #Love Is #Coward

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
-- Ovid

#Pain #Hate #Tough

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
-- Ovid

#Hurt #Men #Worry

What is without periods of rest will not endure.
-- Ovid

#Relaxation #Periods #Endure

Nothing is stronger than habit.
-- Ovid

#Humor #Stronger #Habit

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
-- Ovid

#Desire #Way #Different

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
-- Ovid

#Life #Want #Lovable

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
-- Ovid

#Life #Falling In Love #Men

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
-- Ovid

#Life #Wish #Able

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
-- Ovid

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Stress

Fortune and love favor the brave.
-- Ovid

#True Love #Brave #Favors

Venus favors the bold.
-- Ovid

#Venus #Favors #Flirtation

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
-- Ovid

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
-- Ovid

#Life Changing #Persistence #Water

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
-- Ovid

#Sorrow #One Day #Bears

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
-- Ovid

#Real #Real Friends #Names

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
-- Ovid

#Giving #Poet #Poor

Time is generally the best doctor.
-- Ovid

#Time #Doctors

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
-- Ovid

#Change #Age #World

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
-- Ovid

#Worry #Anxiety #Pleasure

Love is a kind of warfare.
-- Ovid

#Love #Love Is #Warfare

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
-- Ovid

#Fear #Mind #Ease

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
-- Ovid

#Desire #Coveting #Strive

Anyone can be rich in promises.
-- Ovid

#Promise #Rich

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
-- Ovid

#Death #Men #Envy

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
-- Ovid

#Adventure #Succeed #Adventurer

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
-- Ovid

#Believe #Atheism

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
-- Ovid

#Wine #Wings #Worry

A short absence is the safest.
-- Ovid

#Safety #Absence

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
-- Ovid

#Commitment #Adversity #Yellow

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
-- Ovid

#Inspiration #Holy #Rapture

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
-- Ovid

#Quality #Workmanship #Materials

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.
-- Ovid

#Food #Able #Appetite

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
-- Ovid

#Procrastination #Today #Tomorrow

Beauty is a fragile gift.
-- Ovid

#Beauty

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
-- Ovid

#Leadership #Rewards #Should

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
-- Ovid

#Play #People #Kind

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
-- Ovid

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
-- Ovid

#Destiny #Ebb And Flow #Shapes

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
-- Ovid

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
-- Ovid

#Life #Herbs #Can Not

The result justifies the deed.
-- Ovid

#Deeds #Results #Justify

We two are to ourselves a crowd.
-- Ovid

#Two #Crowds

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
-- Ovid

#Marriage #Men #Wife

If you want to be loved, be loveable.
-- Ovid

#Want

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
-- Ovid

#Sleep #Wine #Insomnia

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
-- Ovid

#Men #Fire #May

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
-- Ovid

#Motivational #Rocks #Water

He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.
-- Ovid

#Military #Today #Tomorrow

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
-- Ovid

#Solitude #Obscurity #Wells

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
-- Ovid

#Opportunity #Use #Occasions

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
-- Ovid

#Flower #Rose #Produce

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
-- Ovid

#Reality #Oil #Lamps

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
-- Ovid

#Men #Suffering #He Man

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
-- Ovid

#Life Changing #Inspiration #Desire

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
-- Ovid

#Excellence #Difficulty

You will go most safely in the middle.
-- Ovid

#Middle

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
-- Ovid

#Passion #Wine #Men

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
-- Ovid

#Happy Birthday #Dust #Years

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
-- Ovid

#Wise #Time #Delay

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
-- Ovid

#Grief #Grieving #Rage

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.
-- Ovid

#Littles #Add #Bigs

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
-- Ovid

#Drinking #Ancient #Praise

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
-- Ovid

#Evil #Mind #May

Simplicity, very rare in our age.
-- Ovid

#Stupidity #Simplicity #Age

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
-- Ovid

#Inspirational #Genius #Misfortunes

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
-- Ovid

#Medicine #Giving #Care

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
-- Ovid

#Leadership #Running #Horse

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
-- Ovid

#Patience #Hours

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
-- Ovid

#Eye #Sight #Soul

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
-- Ovid

#Learning #Enemy

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
-- Ovid

#Flower #Rose #Produce

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
-- Ovid

#Positive #Dare

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
-- Ovid

#Perseverance #Pain #Endure

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.
-- Ovid

#Boredom #Fats #Feds

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
-- Ovid

#Love #Love Is #Succeed

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]
-- Ovid

#Dog #Power #Boars

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]
-- Ovid

#Peace #Men #Ira

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.
-- Ovid

#Firsts #Prudence

All things can corrupt perverse minds.
-- Ovid

#Mind #Corruption

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
-- Ovid

#Punishment #Bears

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
-- Ovid

#Poetry #Mind #Fine

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]
-- Ovid

#Punishment #Suffering #Minus

A bitter drug oft brings relief.
-- Ovid

#Drug #Relief #Bitter

Art is most effective when concealed.
-- Ovid

#Art #Art Is

A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
-- Ovid

#Needs #Time Of Need

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
-- Ovid

#Country #Men #Brave

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]
-- Ovid

#Land #Patriotism #Forget

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.
-- Ovid

#Country #Powerful #Patriotism

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
-- Ovid

#Jewels #Simplicity #Found

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
-- Ovid

#Men #May #Causes

The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]
-- Ovid

#Mind #Can Not

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
-- Ovid

#Laughing #Mind #Conscious

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
-- Ovid

#Past #Streams

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.
-- Ovid

#Art #Philosophy #History

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]
-- Ovid

#Men #Heaven #Darkness

From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.
-- Ovid

#Art #Boys #Oxen

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.
-- Ovid

#Mind #Conscious #Rectitude