Ovid quotes - page 7

My name shall never be forgotten. (Ovid)

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

Ovid

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Ovid

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Ovid

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Ovid

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Ovid

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives. (Ovid)

All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own way to the target And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.

Ovid

If she's cool and unwilling to be wooed, Just take it, don't weaken; in time she'll soften her mood. Bending a bough the right way, gently, makes It easy; use brute force, and it breaks. With swimming rivers it's the same- Go with, not against, the current.

Ovid

O mortals, from your fellows' blood abstain, Nor taint your bodies with a food profane: While corn, and pulse by Nature are bestow'd, And planted orchards bend their willing load; While labour'd gardens wholesom herbs produce, And teeming vines afford their gen'rous juice; Nor tardier fruits of cruder kind are lost, But tam'd with fire, or mellow'd by the frost; While kine to pails distended udders bring, And bees their hony redolent of Spring; While Earth not only can your needs supply, But, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; A guiltless feast administers with ease, And without blood is prodigal to please.

Ovid

Let him who loves, where love success may find, Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind; But let poor youths who female scorn endure, And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.

Ovid

Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

Ovid

I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry.

Ovid

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Ovid

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Ovid

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

Ovid

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. (Ovid)

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

Ovid

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

Ovid

or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.

Ovid

Nitimur in vetitum" -- "We strive after the forbidden.

Ovid

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