Quotes About Ovid

#1. To be loved, be lovable." - Ovid

Zig Ziglar

#2. Quotes About Ovid would suggest the entries are not quotes by Ovid.

Paul Burns

#3. the gods are created by poets" --Ovid

Ovid

#4. There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever
the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#5. Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.

Ian Caldwell

#6. ... why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could protect him from a good line of poetry.

Tobias Wolff

#7. in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid]

David Wishart

#9. Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

Walter Savage Landor

#10. How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?

Honorius Augustodunensis

#11. The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

William Blake

#12. For the statement of Isaiah (28:19) is true: "Trouble gives understanding"; likewise, hunger is the best condiment. For those who are afflicted have a better understanding of the Holy Scriptures; the smug and prosperous read them as if they were some poem written by Ovid.

Martin Luther

#13. Just take me and molt me and turn me inside out, till, like a character in Ovid, I become one with your lust, that's what I wanted. Give me a blindfold, hold my hand, and don't ask me to think - will you do that for me?

Andre Aciman

#14. Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport;
By his own talents he worked his undoing.
Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

Ovid

#15. Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance ... Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.

Rolfe Humphries

#16. Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

Honorius Augustodunensis

#17. For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. of Alcohol - but please, be careful how you tell of them, remember Ovid shivering on the Black Sea shores, wondering how to get back in to one of the Roman villas once again. November

MariJo Moore

#19. I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time.

Nicole Krauss

#20. I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.

William Golding

#21. I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. And I think I am about to mistake you for a volume of Ptolemy." He drew her face closer to his. "Make that Ovid," he said. His lips brushed lightly against hers. "Make that Ars Amatoria.

Loretta Chase

#23. Henry James rhymed Fellowship with the gesture of biting a neglected apple, and Ovid a scarlet curtain with the skin of Atalanta.

Hugh Kenner

#24. There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.

Ovid

#25. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

Ovid

#26. By yielding you may obtain victory

Ovid

#27. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Ovid

#28. What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

#29. for no god may undo what another god has done...

Ovid

#30. The gods have their own rules.

Ovid

#31. Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

#32. Nothing is stronger than habit.

Ovid

#33. Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Ovid

#34. Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

Ovid

#35. Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

Ovid

#36. Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

Ovid

#37. While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
[Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

Ovid

#38. He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

Ovid

#39. There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

Ovid

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

Ovid

#41. Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves
To spend his time in his accustomed art.

Ovid

#42. Nothing aids which may not also injure us.
Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

Ovid

#43. Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid

#44. As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Ovid

#45. Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

Ovid

#46. Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

Ovid

#47. Idleness ruins the constitution

Ovid

#48. Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

Ovid

#49. Novelty in all things is charming.

Ovid

#50. Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

Ovid

#51. Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Ovid

#52. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Ovid

#53. Love is a kind of military service

Ovid

#54. Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Ovid

#55. Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

Ovid

#56. The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

Ovid

#57. What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Ovid

#58. Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast,
Of which some days I with design have past;
A part in April and a part in May
Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay;
And as the confines of two months are thine
To sing of both the double task be mine.

Ovid

#59. Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream.
[Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram:
Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]

Ovid

#60. Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid

#61. It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Ovid

#62. It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

Ovid

#63. Courage conquers all things:
it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

#64. Love and dignity do not dwell together.

Ovid

#65. The brave find a home in every land.

Ovid

#66. Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Ovid

#67. A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

Ovid

#68. Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Ovid

#69. There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

Ovid

#70. Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

Ovid

#71. What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

Ovid

#72. As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
[Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum,
Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

Ovid

#73. Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid

#74. Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
[Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

Ovid

#75. An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Ovid

#76. Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

#77. This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

#78. Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

Ovid

#79. Temporis ars medicina fere est.
Time is generally the best medicine.

Ovid

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

Ovid

#81. Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Ovid

#82. In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Ovid

#83. All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Ovid

#84. Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

Ovid

#85. The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]

Ovid

#86. Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods
Themselves are cherished.

Ovid

#87. A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

Ovid

#88. The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
So to the brave man every land's a home.

Ovid

#89. I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Ovid

#90. The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

Ovid

#91. The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
The instigators; iron, foe to man,
And gold, than iron deadlier.

Ovid

#92. The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Ovid

#93. What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Ovid

#94. Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Ovid

#95. Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

Ovid

#96. Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Ovid

#97. A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

Ovid

#98. He lives well who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limits of his means.

Ovid

#99. When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

Ovid

#100. We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid