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title: "3 Time flies Quotes By Ovid"
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> [Tempus fugit (time flies).](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/tempus-fugit-time-flies/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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> [As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/as-wave-is-driven-by-wave-and-each-pursued-pursues-the-wave-ahead-so/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/ovid-276_behinds_as-wave-is-driven-by-wave-and-each-pursu_1186130.png)

> [Make good use of your time, it flies fast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/make-good-use-of-your-time-it-flies-fast/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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## More by Ovid

> [Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/every-woman-thinks-herself-attractive-even-the-plainest-is-satisfied/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/suppressed-grief-suffocates-it-rages-within-the-breast-and-is-forced/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/honesty-by-evil-fortune-tried-finds-in-adversity-the-seed-of-praise/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/it-is-some-alleviation-to-ills-we-cannot-cure-to-speak-of-them/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [ A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. \[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/a-mind-conscious-of-right-laughs-at-the-falsehoods-of-rumour-lat/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Time is generally the best doctor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/time-is-generally-the-best-doctor/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/it-is-convenient-that-there-be-gods-and-as-it-is-convenient-let-us/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/i-hate-a-woman-who-offers-herself-because-she-ought-to-do-so-and-cold/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/the-sea-s-vast-depths-lie-open-to-the-fish-wherever-the-breezes-blow/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/rare-is-the-virtue-that-s-not-ruled-by-fortune-that-stands-unshaken/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/thus-all-things-altered-nothing-dies-and-here-and-there-the-unbodied/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/how-little-is-the-promise-of-the-child-fulfilled-in-the-man/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/judgement-of-beauty-can-err-what-with-the-wine-and-the-dark/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/leave-war-to-others-tis-protesilaus-part-of-love/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

> [Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/remove-but-the-temptations-of-leisure-and-the-bow-of-cupid-will-lose/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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