Latin Quotes

Sona si Latine loqueris = Honk if you speak Latin.
Demum, veniunt porci = At last, here come the pigs.
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre? = Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
Te precor dulcissime supplex! = Pretty please with a cherry on top!
Habetis bona deum! = Have a nice day!
 
Ignorantia juris neminem excusat - Ignorance of the law excuses no-one
Volenti non fit injuria - To a willing person (volunteer) no injury is done
In flagrante delicto - While (the crime) is blazing or more simply to be caught in the act.
 
I've found one, but the translation would earn me a Holiday.

Having spent a bit of time trawling some Latin sites today, I'm very glad I missed this one at school tbh.
wyrdo said:
That's French, not Latin.
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LOL sums up my Linguistic ability's! :o

Do they still teach Latin to kids today? :confused:
 
Found this one above the door to a bed n breakfast once

"O restabit fortis arare placeto restat"

Really means something if you think about it !!
 
My grandfather was educated at Wellington College, which has two legendary mottos:

Virtutis Fortuna Comes ("Fortune Favours the Brave").
Heroum Fili ("Sons of Heroes").

And here's some handy Latin phrases for everyday use:

  • Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat
    It's not the heat, it's the humidity

  • Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare
    I think some people in togas are plotting against me

  • Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris
    If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar!

  • Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

  • [At a barbeque] Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri
    Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?

  • Neutiquam erro
    I am not lost!

  • Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero?
    Do I drink this, or stick my fingers in it?

  • Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur!
    Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out.

:)
 
Doh double post... numpty... sorry

My real favourite is

Forsan et hoec olim memmanisse juvabit.

Which translates roughly as "May it one day be a pleasure to remember these sufferings"

~S
 
memento mori -Remember that you will die

a good one is vir sapit qui pauca loquitur - That man is wise who talks little
(know when to hold your tongue)
 
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