Daily sayings, phrases, quotes...etc

I prefer Latin phrases and quotes, because so little has fundamentally changed in the last two or three thousand years, but this is the open place for all around the world

credo quia absurdum est
I believe it because it is absurd

aut viam inveniam aut faciam

I'll either find a way or make one

this is a small post

bis pueri senes

Old men are twice children

can we make funny citations, like ones not in the dictionnary ?

"Plus qu'il neige plus, qu'il y a de la neige !" --François Pérusse
(Québec dude making funny and famous capsules all over Province of Québec and french-speaking european countries.)

Translated : The more it's snowing the more snow there is ! It doesnt mean much except what it says but i guess if we look into it more carefully we can find a spiritual meaning to that....

SA_ARROW wrote:can we make funny citations, like ones not in the dictionnary ?

"Plus qu'il neige plus, qu'il y a de la neige !" --François Pérusse
(Québec dude making funny and famous capsules all over Province of Québec and french-speaking european countries.)

Translated : The more it's snowing the more snow there is ! It doesnt mean much except what it says but i guess if we look into it more carefully we can find a spiritual meaning to that....

Sure m8

Cyrillic: Ко другоме јаму копа сам у њу пада. - Latin: Ko drugome jamu kopa sam u nju pada.

* Translation: Who digs a trap for others ends up in it himself. (What goes around, comes around.)

adversus solem ne loquitor

Don't speak against the sun (i.e., don't argue an obvious fact)

ars est celare artem

True art is to conceal art

civilitas successit barbarum

Civilization succeeds barbarism

ab aeterno

From the beginning of time

credo ut intelligam

I believe so that I may understand

debitum naturae

Debt of nature (death)

crede quod habes, et habes

Believe that you have it, and you do

lingua speciem involutam praebet, sed sat cito eam comprehendes

It looks like a tricky language, but you'll get the hang of it pretty quickly.

conscientia mille testes

Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses...

bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

damnant quodnon intelligunt

They condemn what they do not understand

"Merda taurorum animas conturbit"

Bullshit baffles brains!

civilitas successit barbarum

Civilization succeeds barbarism

ab ove maiori discit arare minor

From the older ox the younger learns to plow

"nonne amicus certus in re incerta cernitur

a friend in need is a friend in deed

"Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis."

It is best to endure what you cannot change.

victis honor
Honour to the vanquished

Oculis animi ianua


The eyes are the Gateway to the Soul...

abundans cautela non nocet


abundant caution does no harm...(i.e. One can never be to careful)