Ovid Years Quotations

Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.