Quote

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Ovid

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
Poet
Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
Tillage
Agriculture
Exhausted
Field
Constant
Fields
Becomes

More quotes by Ovid

Image
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Ovid
Image
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid
Image
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
Ovid
Image
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Ovid
Image
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]
Ovid
Image
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
Ovid
Image
Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters all are free.
Ovid
Image
Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.
Ovid
Image
Dripping water hollows out a stone
Ovid
Image
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.
Ovid
Image
The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.
Ovid
Image
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
Ovid
Image
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported but unremitting toil destroys both.
Ovid
Image
Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength if not, I shall love unwilling.
Ovid
Image
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
Ovid
Image
There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis et sunt commercia coeli.]
Ovid
Image
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid
Image
The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]
Ovid
Image
My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.
Ovid
Image
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid