Ovid Quotes
A Roman poet who wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations.
(43 BC - 17 AD)
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A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
[Agriculture]
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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A woman is always buying something.
[Women]
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
[Against]
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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All things change, nothing is extinguished.
[Change]
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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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Alternate rest and labor long endure.
[Rest]
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Although they possess enough, and more than enough, still they yearn for more.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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As for courage and will- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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