A Quote by Ovid

The gods favor the bold.

Ovid

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Anita Brookner

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

Ted Hughes

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Virgil

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.

Todd Lieberman

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Sheryl Sandberg

Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

Ovid

I favor big, bold jewelry - especially statement necklaces that still have a sense of delicateness.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Baltasar Gracian

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

David Eagleman

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Catullus

The fact that we're all hyphenating our names suggests that we are afraid of being assimilated. I was talking on the BBC recently, and this woman introduced me as being "in favor of assimilation." I said, "I'm not in favor of assimilation." I am no more in favor of assimilation than I am in favor of the Pacific Ocean. Assimilation is not something to oppose or favor - it just happens.

Richard Rodriguez

?Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

Isabel Allende

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