Latin Quotes

Latin Quote of the day

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

I admire them [latinos] for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Times change, and we change with them.

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

Barba non facit philosophum

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

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

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

Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

They condemn what they do not understand.

The die has been cast.

You, boy, who owe everything to a name

I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.

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.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

pretty please, with a cherry on top of me!

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

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.

While there's life, there is hope.

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Compatible comes from the Latin "compati", meaning "to suffer with". If you are not willing to suffer with someone until death do you part, then you are not compatible.

Whoever desires is always poor.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.