Latin Quotes

563 Latin quotes by 376 unique authors

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace
While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend. — Horace
All Gaul is divided into three parts. — Julius Caesar
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years. — Virgil
What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race. — Virgil
Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods? — Virgil
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand… — Virgil
Keep our marriage alive, and farewell. — Augustus
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go… — Tacitus
Make haste cautiously. — Augustus
Only that which is well done is quickly done. — Augustus
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one. — Augustus
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee. — Pliny the Elder
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Always the same thing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. — Hilaire Belloc
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully… — George W. Bush
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which… — Lord Chesterfield
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. — Jacob Grimm
Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed. — Marcello Mastroianni
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is… — Martha Graham

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