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
hook
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
affects chance expect hook stream
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
chance expect hook pool
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
good-luck lucky-day hook
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.
swim hook unlikely
Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.
swimming water hook
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
hook pool
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
night ugly woman
At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
borne
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
whether women
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
believe
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
darkness fault hid night woman
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
anger becomes belongs fair ferocious peace
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
death frown sneer worried
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.