Ovid
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
hands fire house
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.
anger hands ira
Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
hands length tolerable
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
hands royalty firm
It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]
kings hands long
Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
hands fire may
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.
heart hands mind
For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.
hands restraint grows
Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.
thinking hands age
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
hands true-strength humans
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
opportunity hands fruit
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
anger hands weak
Anger assists hands however weak.
night ugly woman
At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
borne
The burden which is well borne becomes light.