Latin Quotes

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

The same night awaits us all.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

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.

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.

I was what you are, you will be what I am.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.

Hit the nail on the head.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

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.

Even one hair has a shadow.

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music.

He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

Half is done when the beginning is done.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

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

Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.