Ovid Quotes

A woman is always buying something.

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

The gods have their own rules.

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

The more they drink the more they thirst.

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

Love is an affair of credulity.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

That which never has been, never is, and never will be.

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Do not believe hastily.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

I can't live without you or with you.

Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

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

The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.