Ovid Famous Quotes



"Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."

"All things change, nothing perishes."

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

"It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are."

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Love is a kind of warfare.

"There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high."

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

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

"Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination."

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

"If you would marry suitably, marry your equal."

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

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

"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows."

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Time the devourer of all things.

So I can't live either without you or with you.

We can learn even from our enemies.

"To be loved, be lovable."

Nothing is stronger than habit.

The result justifies the deed.


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Marcus Aelius Aurelius

"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Albert Schweitzer

"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad."
Henry Bromel

"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'"
John F Kennedy

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
John Henry Cardinal Newman

Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down.
Swordfish

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right."
Walt Disney

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West

"The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us."
Antoine De SaintExupery