Top 500 Ovid Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “The crop always seems better in our neighbor’s field, and our neighbor’s cow gives more milk.”

— Ovid

352. “An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.”

— Ovid

353. “What ignorance there is in human minds.”

— Ovid

354. “I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.”

— Ovid

355. “Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

358. “Anger assists hands however weak.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

362. “I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

365. “The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”

— Ovid

366. “For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.”

— Ovid

367. “Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.”

— Ovid

368. “All that remained of Daphne was her shining loveliness.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

372. “Bear patiently with a rival.”

— Ovid

373. “The spirits run riot in youth.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

377. “Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

383. “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

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

— Ovid

385. “Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

392. “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

394. “The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

396. “It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.”

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

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

— Ovid

400. “To give requires good sense.”

— Ovid