Quote

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck now the demand is for skill.

Ovid

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
Poet
Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
Skills
Demand
Talent
Involves
Greater
Skill
Wells
Holding
Well
Requires
Seeking
Luck

More quotes by Ovid

Image
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]
Ovid
Image
First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.
Ovid
Image
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
Ovid
Image
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
Ovid
Image
Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]
Ovid
Image
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
Ovid
Image
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
Ovid
Image
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]
Ovid
Image
Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative
Ovid
Image
Work while your strength and years permit you crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Ovid
Image
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Ovid
Image
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.
Ovid
Image
They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]
Ovid
Image
Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.
Ovid
Image
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Ovid
Image
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]
Ovid
Image
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]
Ovid
Image
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]
Ovid
Image
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
Ovid
Image
God himself helps those who dare.
Ovid