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Quotes from Ovid

Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
~ Ovid
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
~ Ovid
Time is generally the best doctor.
~ Ovid
To be loved, be lovable.
~ Ovid
Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets].
~ Ovid
Art lies by its own artifice.
~ Ovid
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
~ Ovid
Venus favors the bold.
~ Ovid
I am Actaeon: recognize your master!
~ Ovid
'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
~ Ovid
I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.
~ Ovid
A short absence is the safest.
~ Ovid
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
~ Ovid
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
~ Ovid
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
~ Ovid
Courage conquers all things.
~ Ovid
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
~ Ovid
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
~ Ovid
Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
~ Ovid
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
~ Ovid
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
~ Ovid
Love is a kind of warfare.
~ Ovid
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
~ Ovid
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
~ Ovid