Top 721 Quotes & Sayings by Ovid - Page 4

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

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

When you have set yourself a task finish it.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

Often a silent face has voice and words.

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

The gods have their own rules.

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.

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

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

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

The more they drink the more they thirst.

We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]

The rose is often found near the nettle.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

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.

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

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

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Tempus fugit (time flies).

Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

Love is an affair of credulity.

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

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

An injury may prove a blessing.

I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]

Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.