Ovid Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

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  Change, Life Changing, Persistence

• "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

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  Water, Stones, Dripping Water

• What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

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  Life, Motivational, Rocks

• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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  Moving, Water, Sloth

• In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

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  Sweet, Water, Pleasure

• Dripping water hollows out a stone

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  Rivers, Water, Environmental

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

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  Art, Boys, Sea

• Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

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  Water, Stones, Dropping

• What is harder than stone?
  What more soft than water?
  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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  Rocks, Water, Stones

• If you would conquer Love, he must be fought
  At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop
  Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

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  Love, Flames, Water

• Not for any one man's delight has Nature made
  the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

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  Nature, Men, Wind

• By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
  A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
  And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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  Practice, Water, Use

• There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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  Water, Small Pleasures, Pure

• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

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  Swimming, Lakes, Sea

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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