Ovid Quotes (165 Quotes)

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Art lies by its own artifice.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Time is generally the best doctor.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

Resist beginnings it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

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

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Love is full of anxious fears.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy The road to valor is built by adversity.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent Seeking involves some luck now the demand is for skill.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

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

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

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

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and, cold and dry, thinks of her sewing when she's making love

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo. - A drop of water hollows a stone, not by force, but by continuously dripping

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.