Quotes by Ovid
3 quotes by Ovid (died 17), taken from Metamorphoses. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Metamorphoses
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“All things are ever changing; nothing perishes.”
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“A pious old woman named Baucis, and Philemon of a like age, were united in their youthful years in that cottage, and in it, they grew old together; and by owning their poverty, they rendered it light, and not to be endured with discontented mind.”
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“For my part, I cannot believe that anything lasts long under the same form. ’Twas thus, ye ages, that ye came down to the iron from the gold; ’tis thus, that thou hast so often changed the lot of various places.”