Ovid Quotes

Ovid
Ovid
Roman Poet
Died: 17 AD
Love Man Men Time Will You
Related authors: Ausonius Horace Juvenal Lucan Lucretius Phaedrus Virgil
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory. Ovid
You Victory Will Way Give Crown Thus Opponent Gain Your
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock. Ovid
Man Poor Man Count His Poor Flock Ever
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned. Ovid
Millionaire Promises Everyone Concerned Where
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. Ovid
Strength Grief Suppressed Forced Within Multiply
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. Ovid
Death Man Worried Brow Delicate Idea New New Idea Yawn Sneer Frown Right
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. Ovid
Medicine Increases Distribution Feared Consumed Understand Accumulate Which Thing Association
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. Ovid
Me You Better Men Long Affliction Tell See Absence Make Him Does Am Truer Off Friend Hold Acquainted Themselves
Time, the devourer of all things. Ovid
Time All Things Things
Envy aims very high. Ovid
Envy Aims High Very
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. Ovid
Man Sorry To Be Honest Nothing Honest
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward. Ovid
Reward Slow Punish Prince Quick Should
Art lies by its own artifice. Ovid
Art Own Lies Artifice
He who says o'er much I love not is in love. Ovid
Love Says He Much Who
Love is a credulous thing. Ovid
Love Love Is Thing Credulous
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. Ovid
Strength Courage All Things Gives Body Even Conquers Things
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid
Water Unless Thou Sloth Corrupted Sluggish How Moves Body Wastes
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. Ovid
Women Long Eludes Like Offered Them Many
You will go most safely in the middle. Ovid
You Will Most Safely Go Middle
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. Ovid
Confidence People Slow Claim Magnitude
An evil life is a kind of death. Ovid
Life Death Evil Life Is A Kind
Bear patiently with a rival. Ovid
Patience Bear Rival Patiently
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. Ovid
You Heart Misfortune Call Affectionate Confess Whether Soft
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. Ovid
Nothing Our Details Except Perishable Go Hearts Us Should Why
Time is the devourer of all things. Ovid
Time All Things Things
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. Ovid
Add Other Lying Slippery Only Step Leads Makes Cunning Very Difference
The burden which is well borne becomes light. Ovid
Light Burden Borne Well Becomes Which
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