Ovid Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

• I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

  Ovid

  Giving, Poet, Poor

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  Ovid

  Health, Medicine, Nurse

  Tristia

• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

  Ovid

  Courage, Drinking, Passion

• The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

  Ovid

  Love, Giving, Glory

• To give requires good sense.

  Ovid

  Inspiring, Giving, Charity

• If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

  Ovid

  Life, Giving Up, Bows

• Courage conquers all things:
  it even gives strength to the body.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Strength, Courage

• Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

  Ovid

  Giving, Victory, Crowns

• Giving calls for genius.

  Ovid

  Giving, Genius

  Ovid, Grant Showerman (1977). “Heroides ; Amores”, Heinemann Young Books

• The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

  Ovid

  Giving, Cows, Fields

• This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
  [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
  Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

  Ovid

  Writing, Giving, Dumb

• Giving requires good sense.
  [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

  Ovid

  Giving, Dare, Good Sense

• Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

  Ovid

  Love, Business, Safety

• Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

  Ovid

  Giving, Doom

  Ovid (1872). “Ovid: The Metamorphoses. Book I-IX”, p.287

• Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
  [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
  Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

  Ovid

  Death, Sleep, Fate

• To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

  Ovid

  Giving, Manners, Polish

• We praise times past, while we times present use;
  Yet due the worship which to each we give.

  Ovid

  Past, Giving, Use

• Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
  Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
  Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

  Ovid

  Wine, Apples, Giving

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