Quotes About Ovid

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

In Brueghel's hands, Ovid's tale of a son's willful rejection of his father's wisdom becomes a story about the need for a kind of humility—for, you might say, perspective; an admonition about what we miss when we are intent on our own narratives, about the dangers of mistaking the foreground for the whole picture.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid]

He looked unsmilingly upon Fancourt's astonishment. The writer rallied quickly. "Ovid?" "Catullus," said Strike, heaving himself off the low pouffe with the aid of the table. "Translates roughly: "So that's how you crept up on me, an acid eating away My guts, stole from me everything I most treasure? Yes, alas, stole: grim poison in my blood The plague, alas, of the friendship we once had.

According to Ovid (F, 4, 259 f.), the Sibyl said: The Mother is far off: I command you, Roman, to go and seek the Mother. When she arrives, let a chaste hand receive her.

April was devoted to Venus and Ovid at once invokes this goddess in the fourth book of the Fasti. Aprilis may even have emerged from the Etruscan Aphru, which transcribes the Greek name Aphrodite

As a matter of fact, if either of the two men were Buckingham or Ovid or Byron, they might have respectively realized that "love is the salt of life," and "the perpetual source of fears and anxieties," and "a capricious power"—but they weren't poets, they

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

I had scarce time to grab a few important scrolls. Desperately I sought for Ovid, whom Pandora had so loved, and for the great tragedians of Greece. Avicus reached out his arms to help me.

Nor have you well taken heed of the words of Ovid, who says, 'Under the honeyed enticements of the flesh is hidden the venom that slays the soul.

In the Roman world, Ovid's Metamorphoses – that extraordinary mythological epic about people changing shape (and probably the most influential work of literature on Western art after the Bible) – repeatedly returns to the idea of the silencing of women in the process of their transformation.

it is the Mediterranean, specifically Italy, that gave us the poet Ovid, who in the Metamorphoses deplored the eating of animals, and the vegetarian Leonardo da Vinci, who envisioned a day when the life of an animal would be valued as highly as that of a person, and Saint Francis, who once petitioned the Holy Roman Emperor to scatter grain on fields on Christmas Day and give the crested larks a feast.

One of the greatest Roman poets was Ovid, an older contemporary of Jesus (his dates: 43 BCE–17 CE). His most famous work is his fifteen-volume Metamorphoses, which celebrates changes or transformations described in ancient mythology. Sometimes these changes involve gods who take on human form in order to interact, for a time, with mortals.

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.