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Latin Quotes & Sayings

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I want to live, and die with you. — Horace

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish. — Arne Glimcher

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. — Joseph Sobran

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it. — Catherynne M Valente

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. — Daniel Alarcon

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made. — Joseph Devlin

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. — Janine Di Giovanni

The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea. — Michael Finkel

I think of all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell. — Roberto Bolano

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony! — Latif Mercado

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin. — Maggie Stiefvater

In Miami, there's a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it. — Ryan Guzman

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. — Noam Chomsky

You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world. — Cristina Saralegui

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. — Juvenal

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador. — Raul Julia

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek. — E. V. Lucas

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table. — Richelle Mead

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock

'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.' — Ben Elliot

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. — Manuel Puig

Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. — Horace

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists. — Albert Hofmann

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

It is easier to start a war than to end it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No, but you're wrong now, and always will be. — Horace

The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other. — Petronius

The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk. — Eduardo Galeano

Limbs of a dismembered poet. — Horace

Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul. — Horace

We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent. — Esai Morales

The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention. — Stephen Neufeld

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee. — Grace Hightower

Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin. — Eduardo Galeano

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world. — Max Fisher

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. — Jacob Grimm

There was a sharp crack of splintering paneling, and Newt swore colorfully in Latin. — Kim Harrison

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline. — Sanford I. Weill

The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds. — Jonathan Goldman

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed. — Aaron Sanchez

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes. — Chris Kirkpatrick

There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along. — Ben Aaronovitch

Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant — Quintus Curtius Rufus

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek. — Ben Jonson

Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun.
Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones. — Richelle Mead

It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America. — Jaime Camil

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence. — Noam Chomsky

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. — Robert Fitzgerald

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much! — Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper." — Greg Ray

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women. — Sofia Vergara

Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words. — Cassandra Clare

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times. — Salma Hayek

quod erat demonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved. — Mark Haddon

Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage. — James Carroll

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest. — Horace

Politics. From the Latin poly, meaning many, and tics, meaning blood-sucking parasites. That may be incorrect, but it's not wrong. — Garon Whited

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers ... — Isaac D'Israeli

Language Barrier We use Latin terms To make us feel smart and sharp (Nobody else cares) — J.D. Dupuy

The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning "to love. — Steven Pressfield

No master can make me swear blind obedience. — Horace

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell. — Augustus

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) — Horace

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus

I think Saturday may be Latin for stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night. — Bart Millard

"Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that."
"Exactly," she agreed. — John Wyndham

The word comes from Latin roots com and templum, "with" and "temple. — Gerald G. May

I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem! — Jerry Scott

Boston Latin School. — David McCullough

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America. — Beto O'Rourke

I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. — Cristina Kirchner

I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first. — Prince Royce

He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it. — Robert Frost

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan. — Prince Royce

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. — Sebastian Arcelus

Latin is an abomination! — Lew Wallace

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America. — Desi Arnaz

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? — Josh Billings

Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad. — Paul A. Volcker

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients. — Rita Mae Brown

Long live the Unity of Latin America. — Hugo Chavez

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Optional is latin for 'Be There'. — Darryl Sutter

With a Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down. — James Joyce

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.) — Horace

Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt. — Matt Haig

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also. — Fidel Castro

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad? — Wally Lamb

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn. — Horace

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially
speaking. — Sol Luckman

The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy. — Stephen Kinzer

'Es cor meum,' he murmured, his eyes dancing over my face.
Though I'd never heard the phrase, I responded: 'Ut tu meus.' As you are mine. — T.J. Klune

I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. — Ezra Pound

Braccas meas vescimini!" I yelled. I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant "Eat my pants! — Rick Riordan