Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “It is the act of a coward to wish for death.”

— Ovid

352. “Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.”

— Ovid

353. “Anger assists hands however weak.”

— Ovid

354. “Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.”

— Ovid

355. “Chaste is she whom no one has asked.”

— Ovid

356. “I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.”

— Ovid

357. “Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.”

— Ovid

358. “That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.”

— Ovid

359. “People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.”

— Ovid

360. “Bear patiently with a rival.”

— Ovid

361. “Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.”

— Ovid

362. “Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.”

— Ovid

363. “Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.”

— Ovid

364. “Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.”

— Ovid

365. “By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature’s softened, and more gentle grows.”

— Ovid

366. “Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.”

— Ovid

367. “Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.”

— Ovid

368. “The crop always seems better in our neighbor’s field, and our neighbor’s cow gives more milk.”

— Ovid

369. “The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.”

— Ovid

370. “My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.”

— Ovid

371. “Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.”

— Ovid

372. “Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.”

— Ovid

373. “Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.”

— Ovid

374. “Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.”

— Ovid

375. “Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.”

— Ovid

376. “And warns us to use life’s beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.”

— Ovid

377. “Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.”

— Ovid

378. “There is a certain pleasure in weeping.”

— Ovid

379. “Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.”

— Ovid

380. “Take the advice of light when you’re looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.”

— Ovid

381. “Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.”

— Ovid

382. “Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.”

— Ovid

383. “The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.”

— Ovid

384. “The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it’s suffering.”

— Ovid

385. “When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.”

— Ovid

386. “Often they benefit who suffer wrong.”

— Ovid

387. “To give requires good sense.”

— Ovid

388. “Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.”

— Ovid

389. “There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.”

— Ovid

390. “There is a good deal in a man’s mode of eating.”

— Ovid

391. “Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.”

— Ovid

392. “Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”

— Ovid

393. “Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.”

— Ovid

394. “Leave war to others; ‘tis Protesilaus’ part of love.”

— Ovid

395. “A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.”

— Ovid

396. “To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.”

— Ovid

397. “You put aside the work that’s done, and seek some work to do.”

— Ovid

398. “Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.”

— Ovid

399. “Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.”

— Ovid

400. “Phantasos: he takes illusory shapes of all inanimate things, earth, stones, rivers, trees.”

— Ovid