Ovid Quotes
Most popular Ovid Quotes
Use thou thy power.
Kings have long arms.
Venus favors the bold.
Do not believe hastily.
Luck affects everything.
To be loved, be lovable.
Virtue is its own reward.
Love is a kind of warfare.
Courage conquers all things.
There is something in omens.
Habits change into character.
The outcome justifies the deeds.
Nothing is stronger than custom.
Time, the devourer of all things.
Little things please little minds.
Time is the devourer of all things.
By yielding, you may obtain victory.
Pleasant words are the food of love.
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
Believe! No storm harms a man who believes.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
If you are to be loved, be worthy to be loved.
Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe.
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.
Let one who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
Rage strengthens the hands, however feeble they may be.
Every man is a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Gold will buy the highest honors; and gold will purchase love.
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
If you the sea held, I would follow you, my wife, until me also the sea held.
Although they possess enough, and more than enough, still they yearn for more.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees— As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
While prosperous, you may number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
It is not wealth, nor ancestry, but honorable conduct and a noble disposition that make men great.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Beauty's a fragile boon, and the years are quick to destroy it, Always diminished with time, never enduring too long.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.
