Ifs Quotes by Ovid

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

— Ovid

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

— Ovid

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

— Ovid

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

— Ovid

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

— Ovid

Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

— Ovid

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

— Ovid

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

— Ovid

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

— Ovid

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

— Ovid

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

— Ovid

Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased…

— Ovid

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself;…

— Ovid

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass…

— Ovid

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

— Ovid

If you want to be loved, be loveable.

— Ovid

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.

— Ovid

If he should love deny him what he loves!

— Ovid

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

— Ovid

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

— Ovid

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

— Ovid

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

— Ovid

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

— Ovid

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

— Ovid

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms…

— Ovid

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

— Ovid

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix,…

— Ovid

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat.,…

— Ovid

Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will…

— Ovid

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

— Ovid