Post Your Favorite Latin Quotes

Today of course | All the gang at FR

[Mad Dawgg]

Hey this is just a little break from the Election madness we will all be a part of tomorrow.

Post any Latin quotes you like whether they be serious or funny.

If you don't know any just do a google search on Latin Quotes there are some really great ones.

[Lucy Lake]

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui.

Bad kitty! Why don't you use the cat box? I put new litter in it.

[XtreMarine]

Semper Fidelis

Always Faithful

Is there any other?

USMC

[Mad Dawgg]

can you translate this into Latin: "thus it is proved"

[chicagolady]

NO TICKY --- NO WASHIE!

[AnAmericanMother]

Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstratum).

- Q.E.D.

"Veni, vidi, Vicki":

"I came, I saw, I went, like, Omigod."

[chicagolady]

Hey cat you have got it wrong! You stole it from my dog!


Sparky said "Leashes?" I don't need no stinkin leashes!

[CGVet58]

"Semper Fidelis... is there any other?"

Yes, there is:

Semper Paratus - Always Ready

(from an unabashedly Damned-Proud Coastie...)

CGVet58

[CGVet58]

My favorite:

Veritas Vos Liberabit

[3_if_by_Treason]

Veni, vidi, visa.
I came, I saw, I shopped.

Veni, vidi, Vichy
I came, I saw, I surrendered

Veni, vidi, Velcro

I came, I saw, I stuck around.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I think it's actually "illegitimi non carborundum"

http://www.ku.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Language/Illegitimi/1.html

It's my favorite Latin quote -- probably because my Dad taught it to me when I was about 8, and my mother disapproved :)

[Constitutional Historian]

"Qui licit Jovi est non licit bovi" (forgive my poor rendering.)

loosley:
-"What is permitted to God is not permitted to cattle."

[TonyInOhio]

Quid hoc ad aeternitatem?

Variously attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Bernard, or St. Aloysius Liguori, it asks "what is this compared to eternity"?

I find it helps to focus the mind.

[TonyInOhio]

Of course, I meant St. Aloysius Gonzaga, not St. Alphonse Ligouri.

Long day. :-)

[TonyInOhio]

Here's a picture:

From a building at Boston College.

I figured the thread could stand a little excitement. :-)

[sistergoldenhair]

Where is that dictionary?
It's been a long time.
I won't say how many years.

[theDentist]

"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc."
"We gladly feast upon those who would subdue us."

[thoughtomator]

Mecca delenda est!

[XtreMarine]

Coast Guard brother, you are right we appreciate your role and I for one think it should be expanded.

XtreMarine

[mlmr]

Posted by Mad Dawgg to mlmr
On General Interest ^ 11/03/2003 5:47 PM EST #8 of 58 ^

>>>{"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"}<<<

I like! I think you should dedicate that one to the memory of Illbay.


Oh I was ILLBAYed more than once. Whatever happened to the poor sour soul?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No.