May Quotes by Ovid

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

— Ovid

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

— Ovid

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

— Ovid

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

— Ovid

An injury may prove a blessing.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]

— Ovid

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not,…

— Ovid

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

— Ovid

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

— Ovid

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms…

— Ovid

We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd…

— Ovid

The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man…

— Ovid

You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since…

— Ovid

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is…

— Ovid

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

— Ovid

Few love what they may have.

— Ovid

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

— Ovid

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

— Ovid

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

— Ovid

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our…

— Ovid

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become…

— Ovid

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque…

— Ovid

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

— Ovid

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no…

— Ovid

Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a…

— Ovid