Ovid

Poet Roman 43 – 17

Roman poet famous for Metamorphoses, a collection of mythological tales.

389 quotes

"If you wish to be loved, love."
Love
"The good time to leave is when you still want to."
Wisdom
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
Strength
"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can happen without a cause."
Philosophy
"Time is the devourer of all things."
Time
"Eight years of courtship have taught me that a husband is just a lover with all the color worn off."
Relationships
"Everybody loves justice in other people's cases and hates it in their own."
Justice
"A man who has made a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."
Wisdom
"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than thanks God for what it leaves."
Gratitude
"It is useful to pretend that you don't know things of which it is well you should be ignorant."
Knowledge
"You will be wounded many times in your life. You will make mistakes."
Courage
"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
Love
"Nothing endures but change."
Change
"Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive."
Work
"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
Fear
"I see and approve better things, but follow worse."
Life
"Everybody politely congratulates the bride and bridegroom and leaves."
Humor
"The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter."
Beauty
"Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine."
Nature
"Those who are a slave to their senses lose the strength of their limbs."
Health
"When the going is good, keep going."
Perseverance
"Patience is the remedy for everything."
Patience
"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."
Happiness
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Art
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Courage
"In a lush meadow, one hears only the grass growing and the grasshoppers jumping; in the city, one hears only the whistles and the curses."
Nature
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Motivation
"Harsh necessity constrains us."
Life
"The mind without instruction cannot know the freedom that comes from truth."
Education
"Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you see a trout."
Wisdom