Ovid quotes

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Ovid

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
Ovid

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.
Ovid

Fools laugh at the Latin language.
Ovid

He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.
Ovid

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

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid.
Ovid

A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.
Ovid

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I
gave words.
Ovid

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.
Ovid

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Ovid

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
Ovid

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Ovid

First appearance deceives many.
Ovid

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return
again.
Ovid

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Ovid

You will be safest in the middle.
Ovid

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
Ovid

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be
cruel.
Ovid

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
Ovid

Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by
long delays.
Ovid

Courage conquers all things: It even gives strength to the body.
Ovid

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
Ovid

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains
of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
Ovid

Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid

Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid

Everything changes, nothing perishes.
Ovid

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