Years Quotes by Ovid

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

— Ovid

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

— Ovid

Nothing is swifter than our years.

— Ovid

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

— Ovid

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love…

— Ovid

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

— Ovid

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

— Ovid

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

— Ovid

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

— Ovid

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta…

— Ovid