911 Quotes by Ovid

Between the houses was a common wall,Flawed with a narrow chink long years ago,When it was built. This chink, so long unnoticed-But what does it not see? - those lovers foundAnd made of it their voices' passageway,And safely flowed the whispered words of love

God himself helps those who dare.

Nothing is stronger than Custom (Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)

اسرع الي خلع خفيها عن قدميها الرقيقتين ان كانت لابستهما أو البسهما قدميها ان كانتا مجردتين منهما, و ان شكت برداً فدفئ كفيها في صدرك, و لو ارتجفت برداً. ولا تحسبها ذلة ان تمسك مرآتها بيدك, يا من ولدت حراً لا قناً(هي ذلة حقاً لكن ما اسرع ان تستعذبها)

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.

What did Sappho of Lesbos teach but how to love women?

...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by nowYour arrows practically know their own way to the target And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.