Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.”

— Ovid

252. “Apollo Loves at first sight; he wants to marry Daphne, He hopes for what he wants – all wishful thinking!”

— Ovid

253. “Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.”

— Ovid

254. “Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.”

— Ovid

255. “The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.”

— Ovid

256. “Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.”

— Ovid

257. “Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?”

— Ovid

258. “Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.”

— Ovid

259. “Take away leisure and Cupid’s bow is broken.”

— Ovid

260. “Neglect of appearance becomes men.”

— Ovid

261. “It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.”

— Ovid

262. “Against the bold, daring is unsafe.”

— Ovid

263. “Beauty is heaven’s gift, and how few can boast of beauty.”

— Ovid

264. “Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”

— Ovid

265. “Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.”

— Ovid

266. “It is ill to marry in the month of May.”

— Ovid

267. “It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.”

— Ovid

268. “Small minds are captivated by trifles.”

— Ovid

269. “Since you can never be my bride, My tree at least you shall be! Let the laurel Adorn, henceforth, my hair, my lyre, my quiver: Let Roman victors, in the long procession, Wear laurel wreaths for triumph and ovation.”

— Ovid

270. “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

271. “The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.”

— Ovid

272. “It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.”

— Ovid

273. “He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.”

— Ovid

274. “There will grow from straws a mighty heap.”

— Ovid

275. “And he sets his mind to unknown arts.”

— Ovid

276. “Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.”

— Ovid

277. “Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.”

— Ovid

278. “Women can always be caught; that’s the first rule of the game.”

— Ovid

279. “If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.”

— Ovid

280. “Argus, you are fallen, and the light in all your lamps is utterly put out: one hundred eyes, one darkness all the same!”

— Ovid

281. “The rose is often found near the nettle.”

— Ovid

282. “Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.”

— Ovid

283. “There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.”

— Ovid

284. “A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.”

— Ovid

285. “We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.”

— Ovid

286. “May the world near and far dread the sons of Aeneas, and if there be land that feared not Rome, may it love Rome instead.”

— Ovid

287. “Hate I shall, if I can; if I can’t, I shall love though not willing.”

— Ovid

288. “Love’s dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.”

— Ovid

289. “The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.”

— Ovid

290. “Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.”

— Ovid

291. “A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.”

— Ovid

292. “My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”

— Ovid

293. “Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”

— Ovid

294. “Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.”

— Ovid

295. “That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.”

— Ovid

296. “Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.”

— Ovid

297. “A short absence is the safest.”

— Ovid

298. “Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.”

— Ovid

299. “Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.”

— Ovid

300. “Love is an affair of credulity.”

— Ovid