Ovid Giving Quotations

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

To give requires good sense.

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Giving calls for genius.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

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