Quote

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

Ovid

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
Poet
Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
First
Quam
Inferior
Inferiors
Thou
Lasts
Last
Better
Firsts
Ultima

More quotes by Ovid

Image
A woman is a creature that's always shopping.
Ovid
Image
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
Ovid
Image
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Ovid
Image
The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.
Ovid
Image
In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]
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
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Ovid
Image
A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
Ovid
Image
There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.
Ovid
Image
The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]
Ovid
Image
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
Ovid
Image
Either attempt it not, or succeed.
Ovid
Image
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
Image
Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move
Ovid
Image
When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.
Ovid
Image
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Ovid
Image
There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .
Ovid
Image
Writings survive the years it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
Ovid
Image
Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.
Ovid