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
writing years agamemnon
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
years feet age
While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]
years contentment may
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]
beauty depressing years
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
happiness sunshine years
If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.
time years
Nothing is swifter than our years.
time years reign
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
years fleeting deceiving
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
years feet age
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
years taught prison
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
beauty years frail
A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.
years wrinkles age
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
happy-birthday dust years
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
friendship years envy
Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.