Ovid Sayings and Quotes
About Author : Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics, including love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. Traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, Ovid was generally considered a great master of the elegiac couplet. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, had a decisive influence on European art and literature for centuries.
Ovid Sayings and Quotes
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be fish.
All things change nothing perishes.
Love is a driver bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
It’s useful that there should be Gods so let’s believe there are.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Love is a kind of warfare.
There is a god within us and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.
What is harder than rock or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
My hopes are not always realized but I always hope.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Overlook our deeds since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
If you would marry suitably marry your equal.
Dignity and love do not blend well nor do they continue long together.
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
By faithful study of the nobler arts our nature’s softened and more gentle grows.
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
Time the devourer of all things.
So I can’t live either without you or with you.
We can learn even from our enemies.
To be loved be lovable.
Nothing is stronger than habit.
The result justifies the deed.
I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything - Bart Simpson