Love Quotes by Ovid

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

— Ovid

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

— Ovid

Love is full of anxious fears.

— Ovid

There is a divinity within our breast.

— Ovid

Love is an affair of credulity.

— Ovid

Tempus fugit (time flies).

— Ovid

everything changes, nothing perishes

— Ovid

Love is a kind of warfare.

— Ovid

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

— Ovid

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

— Ovid

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

— Ovid

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

— Ovid

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

— Ovid

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

— 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

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object…

— Ovid

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when…

— 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

“I got nervous at bulls and eagles, Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take for sex When it could be your…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates…

— Ovid

“Venus of Eryx, from her mountain throne, Saw Hades and clasped her swift-winged son, and said: 'Cupid, my child, my warrior, my…

— Ovid

“Their love was equal; on the hills they roamed together, and together they would go back to their cave; and this time…

— Ovid

“You ask perhaps if one should take the maid herself? Such a plan brings the greatest risk with it. In one case,…

— Ovid

“And when wine has soaked Cupid’s drunken wings, he’s stayed, weighed down, a captive of the place. ... Wine rouses courage and…

— Ovid

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

— Ovid

A short absence is the safest.

— Ovid

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

— Ovid

Habit had made the custom.

— Ovid

To give requires good sense.

— Ovid

Pursuits become habits.

— Ovid

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

— Ovid

Fortune and love favor the brave.

— Ovid