Jove Quotes: top 34 famous quotes about Jove

Jove Quotes & Sayings

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And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy. — Ovid

Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money. — David D. Burns

Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne. — John Keats

I'm sure your feelings do you credit, John, but by Jove, you can't marry a female in a fit of philantropy! — Sheri Cobb South

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! — Thomas Gray

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove. — Homer

Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still! — Oscar Wilde

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. — Homer

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. — John Dryden

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. — John Milton

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented. — Janet Flanner

The earth is rocking, the skies are riven
Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. — Robert Williams Buchanan

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches. — Robert Breault

By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make! — Ford Madox Ford

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era. — Tim O'Brien

Got it, by Jove! We'll build a great big bloody wall and keep the buggers in!" Presumably he hadn't — Liane Moriarty

heights th' immortal Gods, Jove — Homer

Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift. — Dillon Burroughs

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. — Homer

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be. — Sappho

Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers. — Homer

Well, spit on my empty grave
if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses! — Amy Plum

No, not Jove
Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love. — Robert Herrick

The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. — Edmund Waller

Great Jove angry is no longer Jove. — Anton Chekhov

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir."
"By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice? — P.G. Wodehouse

By Jove, Poirot,' I exclaimed, 'did you see that young goddess?' Poirot — Agatha Christie

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — Homer

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
As strong as thunder is in Jove's. — Abraham Cowley

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
One laid aside his thunder, one his rod — Ovid

Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below. — Homer

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free. — Tom Petty