Latin Quotes - Page 15

• I must confess the language of symbols is to me
  A Babylonish dialect
  Which learned chemists much affect;
  It is a party-coloured dress
  Of patch'd and piebald languages:
  'T is English cut on Greek and Latin,
  Like fustian heretofore on satin.

  Sir Richard Phillips

  Party, Learning, Cutting

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• I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Done, Comedy

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Heart, Sweat

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.183

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• One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

  Peter Brodie

  Education, Nice, Fretting

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• [Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

  Dr. Seuss

  Adore

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• In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Writing, School

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about fried chicken). All those combine to make for a very very interesting array of ingredients, restaurants, and the chefs that come there. It also has great seafood, not to mention the glorious citrus that's there. And all those things inform what you do - and they should.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Talking, Interesting, Southern

  "'Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet': Padma's Passport to Flavors". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

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• In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Years, Profound

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• I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Ignorance, America, Population

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• CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.46, University of Georgia Press

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• FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Character, Lawyer

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.86, University of Georgia Press

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• I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

  Ruben Blades

  New York, Thinking, Numbers

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• Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role.

  Sonia Braga

  Roles, Actors, Today

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

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• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  J. L. Austin

  Austin, Done, Models

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1956.

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• I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

  Suzanne Farrell

  People, Interesting, Would Be

  "Suzanne Farrell: Ballerina Extraordinaire". Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.

  Bocafloja

  Race, White, People

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

  Ricky Martin

  Country, America, Drug

  "Ricky Martin Embraces Arab Youth". Ricky Martin's address to the youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a youth conference in the Middle East, www.cbsnews.com. July 25, 2005.

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• The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.

  Geoffrey Gorer

  Animal, Men, Libel

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• Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

  Steven Pinker

  Writing, Editing, Togas

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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• We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Philosophy, School

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• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wall, Military, America

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• When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dog, Journey, Hiking

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• The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

  Lytton Strachey

  Simplicity, Unity, Genius

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

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• But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

  George Saintsbury

  Writing, Men, Long

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.27, tredition

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• Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. Being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence. I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there.

  Kat Dahlia

  Strong, Growing Up, Party

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