Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ovid

• 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.
• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
• An evil life is a kind of death.
• Art lies by its own artifice.
• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
• Bear patiently with a rival.
• Beauty is a fragile gift.
• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
• Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
• Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
• First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
• Fortune and love favor the brave.
• Habits change into character.
• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
• If you want to be loved, be lovable.
• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.
• Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
• The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
• The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
• Time is generally the best doctor.
• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.