While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate… — Ovid Age Copy Share Image
Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all. — Ovid Grows Copy Share Image
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque… — Ovid Contentment Copy Share Image
“O gods, \ If any gods will listen, I deserve \ Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, \ But lest, in… — Ovid Death Copy Share Image
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign. — Ovid Aging Copy Share Image
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I… — Ovid Birthday Copy Share Image
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:… — Ovid Alarms Copy Share Image
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter… — Ovid Alcohol Copy Share Image
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. — Ovid Chance Copy Share Image
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.] — Ovid Darkness Copy Share Image
As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat.,… — Ovid Blood Copy Share Image
Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object… — Ovid Alas Copy Share Image
“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. ” — Ovid Love Copy Share Image