Quotes by Ovid

150 quotes found

Poet (43 BC – AD 17/18) · Roman

Roman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18)

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“A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.”
— Ovid
agriculture

“Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.”
— Ovid
boldness courage

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.”
— Ovid
chance fortune

“All things change nothing is extinguished.”
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change

“Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.”
— Ovid
commitment

“The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.”
— Ovid
compensation

“Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.”
— Ovid
courage

“Fortune and Love befriend the bold.”
— Ovid
courage

“Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight.”
— Ovid
evenings

“Happy the man who can count his sufferings.”
— Ovid
forgiveness

“As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.”
— Ovid
friendship times

“Few love what they may have.”
— Ovid
forgiveness

“Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.”
— Ovid
happiness

“Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.”
— Ovid
lighten

“If you want to be loved be lovable.”
— Ovid
love

“If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal.”
— Ovid
marriage

“The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.”
— Ovid
neighbors

“Nothing is more powerful than habit.”
— Ovid
one day

“Time is the devourer of all things.”
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one day

“Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.”
— Ovid
one day