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
long joy delay
Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]
long clouded ifs
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
women long elude
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
kings hands long
Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
evil long too-late
Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.
kindness long thanks
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
men long affliction
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
friendship long lucky
As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris
doe longing yearning
One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.
long lasts
That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.
long rust talent
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
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.