51 Quotes By Ovid


What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
Ovid on alone

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid on anger

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Ovid on anger

Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid on art

Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid on beauty

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid on beauty

Time is generally the best doctor.
Ovid on best

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Ovid on best

Habits change into character.
Ovid on change

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Ovid on cool

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid on courage

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 on death

An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid on death

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Ovid on death

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid on fear

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid on fear

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid on good

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid on happiness

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid on health

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid on hope