Ovid

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

— Ovid

There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

— Ovid

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

— Ovid

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

— Ovid

“Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet: video meliora proboque,deteriora sequor!”

— Ovid

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

— Ovid

The rose is often found near the nettle.

— Ovid

By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.

— Ovid

Niobe would have been calledmost blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

— Ovid

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by…

— Ovid

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

— Ovid

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

— Ovid

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

— Ovid

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the…

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

— Ovid

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

— Ovid

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

— Ovid

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

— Ovid

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

— Ovid

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

— Ovid

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

— Ovid

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

— Ovid

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

— Ovid

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

— Ovid

“I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.”

— Ovid

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

— Ovid

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

— Ovid

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

— Ovid

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

— Ovid

Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.

— Ovid

“Only she is chaste whom none has invited”

— Ovid

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

— Ovid

When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

— Ovid

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

— Ovid

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

— Ovid

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

— Ovid

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

— Ovid

The result proves the wisdom of the act.

— Ovid