Ovid Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

  Ovid

  Flower, Rose, Joy

• Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

  Ovid

  Happiness, People, Joy

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.83, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

• The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

  Ovid

  Joy, Mind, Poet

• There is some joy in weeping. For our tears
  Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

  Ovid

  Pain, Joy, Sorrow

• We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
  But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

  Ovid

  Joy, Pleasure, Forbidden

• There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
  comes to mar our joys.

  Ovid

  Simple, Joy, Mars

• Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
  and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

  Ovid

  Cheating, Joy, Made

  Ovid (1929). “Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid”

• 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

  Strong, Lying, Moving

• Every delay that postpones our joys, is long.
  [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

  Ovid

  Long, Joy, Delay

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