227 Best Quotes by Ovid

Ovid
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing natu… ▶
Hope

Ovid
Time is generally the best doctor.
Time

Ovid
There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.
Humanity

Ovid
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
Love

Ovid
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Reflection

Ovid
Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm. ✨ Ovid (1957). The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love, p.100, Indiana University P… ▶
Death Love

Ovid
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Hope

Ovid
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
Sadness

Ovid
Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
Reflection

Ovid
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
Reading

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

Ovid
Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken ✨ Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). Ovid, Loeb Classical Library
Truth

Ovid
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.
Humor

Ovid
Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
Reading

Ovid
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
Philosophy

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

Ovid
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Sadness

Ovid
Little things please little minds. ✨ Ovid, Stanley Appelbaum (2010). The Art of Love, p.9, Courier Corporation
Love Thought

Ovid
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Love

Ovid
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Love

Ovid
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Reading

Ovid
The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
Love

Ovid
There is no small pleasure in pure water.
Reading

Ovid
Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.
Thought

Ovid
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Humanity

Ovid
I see and approve better things, but follow worse.
Sadness

Ovid
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
Sadness

Ovid
Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard. ✨ Ovid (1932). The Love Books of Ovid, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Death Love Reading

Ovid
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
Death Life

Ovid
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
Humor