Latin Quotes

563 Latin quotes by 376 unique authors

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead,… — Joseph Campbell
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from… — Miguel de Cervantes
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's… — Connie Willis
The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life. — Paulo Coelho
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so… — Al Gore
Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the… — Rick Riordan
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of… — Umberto Eco
Ut cum spiritu postrema sacramentum dejuremus," he chanted. "Et hostes ornamenta addent ad ianuam necem." "You just...finished the prophesy,"Rachael stammered. "-An oath to keep with… — Rick Riordan
To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
but do i need to say anything?" sophie asked. "do i need to learn any words?" "like what?" saint-germain said. "well, when you lit up… — Michael Scott
Science is only a Latin word for knowledge — Carl Sagan
Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii… — Jim Butcher
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft,… — Amy Carmichael
He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they? — Philippa Gregory
Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory… — T.C. Boyle
Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart — Eduardo Galeano
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever… — Robert A. Heinlein
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's… — Mark Haddon
In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys… — Mindy Kaling
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin. — A A Milne
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle… — George Orwell
What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down. — James Joyce
The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try… — Anthony Horowitz
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures.… — Anais Nin

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