Christopher G > Christopher's Quotes

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
― Ovid

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

“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. ”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

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

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
― Ovid

“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
― Ovid

“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”
― Ovid

“Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.”
― Ovid

“As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need to ‘rest’ when they’re dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d’Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I’m only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won’t need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
― Ovid

“If you would be loved, be lovable”
― Ovid

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”
― Ovid

“God himself helps those who dare.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Every lover is a soldier.”
― Ovid, Amores

“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. ”
― Ovid

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”
― Ovid

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
― Ovid

“I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.”
― Ovid

“Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.”
― Ovid

“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are”
― Ovid

“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”
― Ovid

“All things change; nothing perishes.”
― Ovid

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
― Ovid