What does it mean?
A single drop of water is weak, but drops falling again and again can make a hole in rock. Small efforts repeated for a long time can achieve what force cannot.
Key vocabulary
- Dripping
- falling in small drops
- hollows out
- makes a hole or empty space inside something
Who said it?
Ovid: Roman poet (43 BC–AD 17). Source: Epistulae ex Ponto (c. AD 13), in translation.