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OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Roman poet
(43 BC - c. 17 AD)
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We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order.
  [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]
      - [Hair : Neatness]

We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.
      - [Proverbs]

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
      - [Proverbs]

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.
      - [Time]

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]
      - [Proverbs]

What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water.
      - [Proverbs]

What ignorance there is in human minds.
      - [Ignorance]

What is harder than stone?
  What more soft than water?
    Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
      - [Proverbs]

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.
      - [Fire]

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
      - [Proverbs]

What is reason now was passion heretofore.
      - [Reason]

What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what is not known.
      - [Proverbs]

What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet.
      - [Proverbs]

Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.
      - [Proverbs]

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
      - [Proverbs]

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.
      - [Proverbs]

When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of sly tricks.
      - [Proverbs]

When you have set yourself a task finish it.
      - [Proverbs]

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.
      - [Death]

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
      - [Proverbs]

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
      - [Prosperity]

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
      - [Years]

With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished.
      - [Proverbs]

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
      - [Proverbs]

You began better than you have finished; the last act is not equal to the first.
      - [Proverbs]


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