Water Quotes by Ovid

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

— Ovid

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

— Ovid

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

— 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

Dripping water hollows out a stone

— Ovid

From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,…

— Ovid

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

— Ovid

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

— Ovid

By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

— Ovid

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

— Ovid

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

— Ovid

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

— Ovid

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

— Ovid

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

— Ovid