Ovid Quotes About Love
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As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.
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You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
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Love is no assignment for cowards.
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Love is an affair of credulity.
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Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.
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Few love what they may have.
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If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]
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The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
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Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
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Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.
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Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.
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Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.
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If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.
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Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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Excessive love in loathing ever ends.
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Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]
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Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.
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Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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A lover fears all that he believes.
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Skill makes love unending.
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Love, and a cough, are not concealed.
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Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.
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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
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Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
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There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.
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Love is a believing creature.
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I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.
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