Ovid Quotes

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

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

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

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

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

All things change, nothing perishes.

Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

Art lies in concealing art.

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

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.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

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

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

God himself helps those who dare.

Courage conquers all things.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Either attempt it not, or succeed.

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

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.