Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Buber

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Philippa Gregory

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

Quintus Ennius

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.

Quintus Ennius

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

Prince Royce

There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music.

Pliny the Elder

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Pliny the Elder

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

Pliny the Elder

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Plutarch

Barba non facit philosophum

Pope Benedict XVI

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Rita Ora

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

Rita Mae Brown

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Timothy Leary

The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

Timothy Leary

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

Thomas Sowell

Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

Sandra Cisneros

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.

Roselyn Sanchez

I admire them [latinos] for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Robert Zoellick

In London, Washington, and Paris people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

Sarah Mlynowski

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

Sanford I. Weill

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

Richard Lederer

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Ricardo Montalban

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

Vera Wang

I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

Sandra Cisneros

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

Ryan Guzman

In Miami, there's a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it.

Virgil

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

Virgil

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

Virgil

Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?

Virgil

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Virgil

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

Virgil

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

Salma Hayek

You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.