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.

[Consort]

Veni, vidi, Vichy

I came, I saw, I surrendered

[Interesting Times]

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

"We gladly feast on those who would subdue us."

-- The Addams Family.

That wouldn't be a bad FR motto, either.

[Mad Dawgg]

"(I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)"

You owe me a keyboard!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Speaking loosely means loosely speaking.

[MHGinTN]

Et tu, Clerk?

And the old stand-by, Carpe Diem!

[mass55th]

"Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes"

- If you can read this you're overeducated

[Argh]

Eo cum eo eo.

He (or is it I) goes (or is it go) there with him. 37 years, I've forgotten a lot.

[FixitGuy]

Mea linoleum

I'm floored!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Vox populei vox dei, vox humana vox tremelo.

[mass55th]

"Si vis pacem, para bellum"

- If you want peace, prepare for war

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"The fact itself" , in the ablative absolute construction, implying instrumentality, by means fact itself. From the dictionary:


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.]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution restricted in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

[Centurion2000]

Can you translate this one ?

Trample the Weak, Step over the Dead.

[Mad Dawgg]

Another of my favs: Insanes numquam moriuntur. - Idiots will never die out

[nicmarlo]

Ipso facto - adv. [literally, by the fact itself] by that very fact or act; as an inevitable result.

from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary - Tenth Edition

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

prima facie, - "first appearances" as in the sentence:

"In Massachusetts driving off a bridge is prima facie evidence of negligence. Negligence resulting in the death of another is the legal definition of manslaughter."

[Revolting cat!]

"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"

[nicmarlo]

LOL!

[Drammach]

Hey! LATINO QUOTES! Yeah!..

[Lucy Lake]

Emptum Supremus Vendo Vilitas

“buy high, sell low”

[Lucy Lake]

Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?

How do you get your hair to do that?