Jeff Davis

“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

“Wait for the final day. Call no man happy until he is dead and his body is laid to rest in the grave.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Now I have finished my work, which nothing can ever destroy - not Jupiter's wrath, nor fire or sword, nor devouring time. That day which has power over nothing except this body of mine may come when it will and end the uncertain span of my life. But the finer part of myself shall sweep into eternity, higher than all of the stars. My name shall never be forgotten. Where-ever the might of Rome extends in the lands she has conquered, the people shall read and recite my words. Throughout all ages, if poets have vision to prophecy truth, I shall live in my fame.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
― Lewis Carroll