Loyaute me lie – Loyalty Binds Me

Ars longa vita brevis

What do you think that fish is?’ Sam asked Astrid.She peered closely at the alleged fish. ‘I think that’s an example of Pesce inedibilis,’ she said.’Yeah?’ Sam made a face. ‘Do you think it’s okay...

No, it’s all Greek to me.

Exactly,” she agreed.

He called it potentia because there’s nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you’re making it up as you go along.

Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!

As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other nouns in that tongue had always been one of his weak points. In...

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

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

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.

Facilis descensus AvernoNoctes atque dies patet atri ianua DitisSed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad aurasHoc opus labor est

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.””I shall either find away, or make one

Braccas meas vescimini!”I wasn’t sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant ‘Eat my pants!

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

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

Latin is already a dead language, man… don’t make it any deader.

I normally listen to Spanish music – well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

I’d studied Latin for five years now, which meant that I could, on rare occasions, actually translate something.

I don’t know what I’m doing in Santa Teresa,” Amalfitano said to himself after he’d been living in the city for a week.”Don’t you? Don’t you really?” he asked himself.”Really I don’t,” he said to...

Pactum serva” – “Keep the faith

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.

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

I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin.

credo ut intelligam. (i believe so i can understand).

What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it’s not Latin music.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

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.)

Stercus Accidit.[barren happens]

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas” – “Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

(on the word “fuck”)’Oh, come on, Mum,’ I sighed at her protest. ‘It’s just an old Anglo-Saxon word for the female organ which has been adopted by an inherently misogynist language as a negative epithet....

On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM.For ever and ever. In the red light, the brushed steel glowed softly, like embers. The polish letters blazed.Without a hiss,...

‘Livin’ la Vida Loca’ is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music.

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

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

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. ‘Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

Omnia mutantur; nihil interit

Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for...

I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone…but...

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ”the mess we’re in.”

Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.”If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is...

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

You Can’t Replace A Star with A Lightbulb

Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna.”[“Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank.”]

You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the international language for smart people?”-Shane (Glass Houses)