Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Women’s words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.”

— Ovid

102. “By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.”

— Ovid

103. “The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.”

— Ovid

104. “Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”

— Ovid

105. “The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.”

— Ovid

106. “Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.”

— Ovid

107. “Every lover is a soldier.”

— Ovid

108. “Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”

— Ovid

109. “Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.”

— Ovid

110. “I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.”

— Ovid

111. “Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.”

— Ovid

112. “Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”

— Ovid

113. “Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”

— Ovid

114. “Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.”

— Ovid

115. “Novelty in all things is charming.”

— Ovid

116. “What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.”

— Ovid

117. “Giving calls for genius.”

— Ovid

118. “The gods behold all righteous actions.”

— Ovid

119. “We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.”

— Ovid

120. “Love is the force that leaves you colorless.”

— Ovid

121. “Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.”

— Ovid

122. “Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

125. “As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.”

— Ovid

126. “It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”

— Ovid

127. “A woman is always buying something.”

— Ovid

128. “Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.”

— Ovid

129. “All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.”

— Ovid

130. “Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one’s enemies.”

— Ovid

131. “To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.”

— Ovid

132. “How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.”

— Ovid

133. “Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.”

— Ovid

134. “If the art is concealed, it succeeds.”

— Ovid

135. “Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things.”

— Ovid

136. “Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.”

— Ovid

137. “We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”

— Ovid

138. “If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.”

— Ovid

139. “Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.”

— Ovid

140. “Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.”

— Ovid

141. “O fool, what else is sleep but chill death’s likeness?”

— Ovid

142. “Anyone can be rich in promises.”

— Ovid

143. “Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.”

— Ovid

144. “The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.”

— Ovid

145. “Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”

— Ovid

146. “Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”

— Ovid

147. “We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.”

— Ovid

148. “It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.”

— Ovid

149. “Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.”

— Ovid

150. “We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.”

— Ovid