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Thursday, 24 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations by Ovid

A short absence is the safest.
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Love is full of anxious fears.
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
When disposition wins us, the features please.
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
To give requires good sense.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
An evil life is a kind of death.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Time is generally the best doctor.
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Bear patiently with a rival.
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
-- Ovid | Envy
Envy aims very high.
-- Ovid | Envy
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
-- Ovid | Fame
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
-- Ovid | Fate
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
-- Ovid | Gifts
Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
-- Ovid | Guilt
Habits change into character.
-- Ovid | Habit
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
-- Ovid | Heart
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
-- Ovid | Heart
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
-- Ovid | Hope
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
-- Ovid | Love
There is something in omens.
-- Ovid | Magic
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.
Keep a mid course between two extremes.
You will go most safely in the middle.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
-- Ovid | Money
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
-- Ovid | Night
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
-- Ovid | Past
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
-- Ovid | Rest
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
-- Ovid | Risk
Daring is not safe against daring men.
-- Ovid | Risk
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
Skill makes love unending.
-- Ovid | Sex
'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
-- Ovid | Sin
Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Nothing is swifter than our years.
Time is the devourer of all things.
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.