Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
Ovid
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
Poet
Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
Idleness
Born
Love
Fostered
More quotes by Ovid
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
Ovid
Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay the poor man's acts are not worth the expense
Ovid
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]
Ovid
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige amicitias et tibi junge pares.]
Ovid
Habit had made the custom.
Ovid
Skill makes love unending.
Ovid
When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
Ovid
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
Ovid
Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.
Ovid
I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.
Ovid
A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.
Ovid
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Ovid
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid
The need has gone the memorial thereof remains.
Ovid
When disposition wins us, the features please.
Ovid
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid
Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand Better that they were not touched at all.
Ovid
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
Ovid
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
Ovid
Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul
Ovid
