Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

155. “Anyone can be rich in promises.”

— Ovid

156. “Either attempt it not, or succeed.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

160. “He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

162. “But love, resistless love, my soul invades, discretion this, affection that perswades. I see the right and I approve it too, condemn the wrong and yet the wrong pursue.”

— Ovid

163. “Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative.”

— Ovid

164. “There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.”

— Ovid

165. “Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.”

— Ovid

166. “Pursuits become habits.”

— Ovid

167. “Pleasant words are the food of love.”

— Ovid

168. “All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”

— Ovid

169. “My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.”

— Ovid

170. “At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.”

— Ovid

171. “Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.”

— Ovid

172. “Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.”

— Ovid

173. “Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid’s bow is useless.”

— Ovid

174. “Have consideration for wounded feelings.”

— Ovid

175. “The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.”

— Ovid

176. “A gift in time of need is most acceptable.”

— Ovid

177. “What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.”

— Ovid

178. “To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.”

— Ovid

179. “In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.”

— Ovid

180. “Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.”

— Ovid

181. “And besides, we lovers fear everything.”

— Ovid

182. “A woman is a creature that’s always shopping.”

— Ovid

183. “O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!”

— Ovid

184. “Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.”

— Ovid

185. “The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.”

— Ovid

186. “It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.”

— Ovid

187. “Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.”

— Ovid

188. “When disposition wins us, the features please.”

— Ovid

189. “It is the act of a coward to wish for death.”

— Ovid

190. “Do not believe hastily.”

— Ovid

191. “Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

193. “You will go most safely in the middle.”

— Ovid

194. “Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.”

— Ovid

195. “Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.”

— Ovid

196. “Skill makes love unending.”

— Ovid

197. “Keep a mid course between two extremes.”

— Ovid

198. “The rest night knows, and we, and the tower that sees, and the light that showed me a path through the sea.”

— Ovid

199. “That which never has been, never is, and never will be.”

— Ovid

200. “There is something in omens.”

— Ovid