Top Quotes of Ovid
- “A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.” – Ovid
- “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid
- “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid
- “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” – Ovid
- “He lives well who lives retired, and keeps. His wants within the limits of his means.” – Ovid
- “If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.” – Ovid
- “Love is no assignment for cowards.” – Ovid
- “Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.” – Ovid
- “The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.” – 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
Top Quotes of Ovid
Ovid Quotes about Age and Appearance
Quotes about Love and Marriage by Ovid
Opportunity and Wealth Quotes by Ovid
Quotes about Anger by Ovid
Quotes on Crime by Ovid
Death Quotes by Ovid
Ovid Quotes about Age and Appearance
Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys honor, gold procures love
Ovid
Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.
Ovid
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Ovid
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Ovid
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Ovid
They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen.
Ovid
When disposition wins us, the features please
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Quotes about Love and Marriage by Ovid
Love is no assignment for cowards.
Ovid
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
Ovid
It is ill to marry in the month of May.
Ovid
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
Ovid
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Ovid
Opportunity and Wealth Quotes by Ovid
Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
Ovid
Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.
Ovid
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
Ovid
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Ovid
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
Ovid
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
Ovid
Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
Ovid
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
Ovid
The ungovernable passion for wealth.
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Quotes about Anger by Ovid
Anger assists hands however weak.
Ovid
Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Ovid
Quotes on Crime by Ovid
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Ovid
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Ovid
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Ovid
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
Ovid
Death Quotes by Ovid
An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.
Ovid
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
Ovid
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
Ovid
O fool, what else is sleep but chill death’s likeness?
Ovid
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
Ovid
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.
Ovid
Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.
Ovid