Ovid Quotes - Page 8

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• Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
  [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos
  Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]

  Ovid

  Land, Patriotism, Forget

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• Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

  Ovid

  Grief, Tears, Flow

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• He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

  Ovid

  Ideas, Desire, Able

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• Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

  Ovid

  Death, New Beginnings, Men

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.359, Oxford University Press

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• Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

  Ovid

  Mean, Love Is, Gold

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• Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

  Ovid

  Gold, Honour, Highest

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

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• Lovers remember everything.
  [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]

  Ovid

  Remembers Everything, Lovers, Remember

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• God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

  Ovid

  Stars, Men, Heaven

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• The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

  Ovid

  Giving, Cows, Fields

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• Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

  Ovid

  Fear, Men, Wish

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• As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

  Ovid

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Ovid (1851). “The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid”, p.31

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• Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

  Ovid

  Men, Wisest Man, Too Much

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• He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Swim, Might

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• Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
  Better that they were not touched at all.

  Ovid

  Hands, Restraint, Grows

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• There is something in omens.

  Ovid

  Magic, Omen

  Ovid (1852). “Ovid”, p.291

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• To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

  Ovid

  Ambition, Sleep, Wish

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• The more they drink the more they thirst.

  Ovid

  Drink, Thirst

  Ovid, Betty Rose Nagle (1995). “Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays”, p.200, Indiana University Press

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• To give requires good sense.

  Ovid

  Inspiring, Giving, Charity

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• Venus favors the bold.

  Ovid

  Favors, Venus, Flirtation

  Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.422, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Either attempt it not, or succeed.

  Ovid

  Success, Succeed

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• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  Ovid

  Drinking, Paganism, Ancient

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• I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my
  verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have
  shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped
  in poisonous jest.

  Ovid

  Poetry, Letters, Jest

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• Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

  Ovid

  Soul, Injury, Feels

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• You will go most safely in the middle.

  Ovid

  Safety, Middle

  Metamorphoses bk. 2, l. 137

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• A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light

  Ovid

  Light

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