Post Your Favorite Latin Quotes

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[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.

[thoughtomator]

So... what's the Latin for "How 'bout them Cowboys?"

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

ipso facto (îp´so fàk´to) adverb
By the fact itself; by that very fact: An alien, ipso facto, has no right to a U.S. passport.

[New Latin ipso facto : Latin ipso, ablative of ipse, itself + Latin facto, ablative of factum, fact.]

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[Mike Fieschko]

Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

[ElkGroveDan]

Romanes eunt domus

[Junior]

My tag line.

[AdmSmith]

Make your own Quote. Take an old quote and change some words http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl

[SunkenCiv]

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[eleni121]

Sic Semper Tyrannus - luckier than Ceausescu et al

[Freedom2specul8]

Neat ping...thanks!

[Young Werther]

"Quae cum ita sunt....."

Caesar's Gallic Commentary. According to Miss Gormley my high school Latin teacher this was Caesar's favorite phrase while dictating his commentaries.

It translates as, "since these things are so"

[SunkenCiv]

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[The Chid]

Romanes eunt domus

People called romanes, they go the house?

[ElkGroveDan]

Apparently I’ve been waiting four years for someone to add the punchline.

[Cincinatus]

The great verbal duel in Latin between Johnny Ringo and Doc Holiday in the movie, Tombstone:

Doc: In vino veritas.

Ringo: Age quod agis.

Doc: Credat Iudaeus Apella, non ego.

Ringo: Iuventus stultorum magister.

Doc: In pace requiescat!

Doc: In wine there is truth.

Ringo: Do what you do.

Doc: Let Apella the Jew believe, not I.* Horace's Satires, book 1, satire 5, lines 100-101

Ringo: Youth is the teacher of fools.

Doc: Rest in peace. (loosely, from Poe's The Cask of Amontillado)

*The context: Horace is traveling through Italy. He sees some religiously related divine flame at a shrine. He does not believe in the miracle, so he says these words....