Quotes About Latin

When people ask me what club I supported growing up, I didn't really watch club soccer. The only channels I got had World Cups and the Copa America, so I gravitated toward the Latin American, South American style of game.

cta est fbula: plaudite! (Suetonius Aug. 99.1: plaud, plaudere, plaus, plausum, to strike with a flat surface, clap; applaud; "plaudit," "explode." Augustus' last words, according to his biographer.)

Mribus antqus rs stat Rmna virsque. (Ennius Ann. 467.)

Nm nisi viti su miser est. (Seneca Ep. 8.70.15:

Levmur superstitine, lbermur mortis met. (Cicero Fin. 1.63:

Nllum homin est perpetuum bonum.

Nquitia ipsa poena su est. (Publilius

Vvere est cgitre. (Cicero Tusc. 5.111.)

15. Lbers rud. (lber as adj. means free, but in the m. pl. it can also = children.—rudi, rudre, rudv, rudtum, to instruct, train, educate; a wonderful etymology, meaning lit. to get someone ex/ out of being rudis/ rough, crude, unpolished—so, gentle reader, learn Latin, cease to be "rude," become "erudite," and rejoice in your "erudition"!)

Suum cuique pulchrum est.

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, Miss Woolf said, a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

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.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour three times a week.

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.