Latin Quotes

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

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

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

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

The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

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

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.

If you wish to be loved, love.

Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role.

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

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

I can't go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I'm anything, I'm inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

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

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars

Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.