Latin Quotes

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.

Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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

Don't waste the opportunity.

Don't carry logs into the forest.

There is a middle ground in things.

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

The words can not return.

The grammarians are arguing.

He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

The glory is for those who deserve.

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

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

I want to live, and die with you.

The dispute is still before the judge.

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

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

I am doubting what to do.

Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

From the egg to the apple.

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

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

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

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Always the same thing.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

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