Quote

The result proves the wisdom of the act.

Ovid

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ovid
Author
Elegist
Mythographer
Poet
Writer
Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
Proves
Result
Prove
Results
Wisdom

More quotes by Ovid

Image
The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
Ovid
Image
There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.
Ovid
Image
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
Ovid
Image
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
Ovid
Image
Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Ovid
Image
A woman is always buying something.
Ovid
Image
See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.
Ovid
Image
Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
Ovid
Image
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
Ovid
Image
Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.
Ovid
Image
Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.
Ovid
Image
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Ovid
Image
The most wretched fortune is safe for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
Ovid
Image
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
Ovid
Image
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
Ovid
Image
If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.
Ovid
Image
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.
Ovid
Image
The act is judged of by the event.
Ovid
Image
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck now the demand is for skill.
Ovid
Image
Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.
Ovid