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
time years
Nothing is swifter than our years.
time all-things
Time is the devourer of all things.
time years reign
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
time return wave
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
time medicine
Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.
time all-things
Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.
horse time oxen
Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci; Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.
time
Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.
time feet rapids
We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.
time age degrees
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
time time-flies
Tempus fugit (time flies).
passing-moments time-flies wave
As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.
needs time-of-need acceptable
A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
time thinking people
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.