Calumny Quote by Ovid Download Open image “Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.” — Ovid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calumny High places Pursue Slander Wind
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Strong winds create giant waves; strong wills create giant men!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
California can't be a great state until all parts of the state are great. — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
“The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.” — Saleem Sharma Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share Image
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… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“Saint John of the Ladder explains it thus: "The devil tempts us to commit sin; and when he does not succeed, he points scornfully… — Fr. Belet Copy Share Image
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. — Herodotus Copy Share Image