Ovid Quotations | Page 2

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

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

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.