Ovid Quotes (page 2)

43 BC-18 AD, Roman Poet
quotes
83
topics
12
Topic
“If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.”
Marriage
“What is without periods of rest will not endure.”
Rest
“Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.”
Solitude
“This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.”
Life and Living
“In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.”
Leisure
“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”
Hope
“What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.”
Reason
“If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.”
Love
“Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.”
Promises
“Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.”
Action
“Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.”
Perseverance
“The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.”
Will and Will Power
“How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.”
Children
“Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.”
Marriage
“Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.”
Temptation
“That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.”
People
“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
Psychology
“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
Risk
“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.”
Courage
“People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.”
Confidence
“The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.”
Appearance
“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
Sorrow
“We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.”
Belief
“People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.”
Belief
“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
Anxiety
“Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.”
Wealth
“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
Desire
“The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.”
Past
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”
Competition