Old Latin Quotes
November 29 — December 5, 2009
Qui non zelat, non amat.
Cave ne ante ullas catapultas.
If I were you, I wouldn’t walk in front of any catapults.
~ Henry Beard
February 8, 2010- February 15, 2010
Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educates et nimis propinquus ades.
If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close.
(I saw this one driving down the street and it cracked me up!)
February 16, 2010 – February 24, 2010
Si post fata venit gloria non propero
If glory comes after death, I’m not in a hurry.
~Martial (epigrams)
February 25, 2010 – May 30, 2010
Gallus in suo sterquilinio plurimum potest.
Every rooster is proud on his own dunghill.
~Seneca
May 30, 2010 – June 5, 2010
Si vis me flere dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
~ Horace
June 6, 2010 – June 13, 2010
Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus.
Sometimes even good Homer sleeps.
~ Horace from Ars Poetica: taken to suggest rather gently that even good writers are not always at their best. Or, you win some; you lose some.
June 13, 2010 – July 12, 2010
Mendacem memorem esse oportet.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
~Quintilian
July 13 – July 18, 2010
Qui scribit bis legit.
He who writes reads twice. (Or in my case, a jillion times).
~Horace
July 18 – October 18, 2010 (Wow, that was one long week).
Casus non datur.
There is no such thing as chance.
~Saint Thomas Aquinas
October 19 – November 2, 2010
Non omnis, qui nobis arridet, amicus est.
Not everyone who laughs with us is a friend.
~Traditional
Novemebr 2, 2010 – May 1, 2011
Cor gaudens exhilarat factem.
A joyful heart lights up the face.
~Salomo
