Favorite Latin Phrase

Do you have one?

[pendanticist]

In this thread: [webmasterworld.com...] elgumbo is trying to find a translation of a particular phrase.

This reminded me of my favorite Latin phrase...

Audi Alteram Partem - Hear the other side.

What is your favorite?

[digitalghost]

Sapere aude. "Dare to know." From one of Kant's essays.

[roscoepico]

Ascendo tuum - Up yours

[lawman]

res ipsa loquitur, which I have embroidered on the front of my underwear.

[roscoepico]

res ipsa loquitur - This Thing Speaks For Itself

Now thats funny, what's the latin variation of this thing "thinks" for itself?

[digitalghost]

Is res reputo pro ipsum.

[encyclo]

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!

[Woz]

Carpe Nocturna.

Onya
Woz

[jecasc]

Pecunia non olet.

and

In vino veritas.

;-)

[Rugles]

tempus fuget

I may have spelled it wrong but it means "time flies".

[jecasc]

And here is another one. Guess you can figure out for yourself what it means. ;-)

Macdonaldus senex fundum habuit.
e-i-e-i-o.
et in hoc fundo, nonnullas boves domesticas habuit. e-i-e-i-o.
cum moo moo hic,
cum moo moo ibi.
hic una moo, ibi una moo,
ubique una moo moo.
Macdonaldus senex fundum habuit.
e-i-e-i-o.

[photon]

Caveat emptor

[Hawkgirl]

nolo contendere

[lawman]

[tultw.com...]

[ThomasB]

Quod licet Iovis, non licet bovis.

[pendanticist]

>All that is allowed to Jupiter is not necessarily allowed to an ox.?

lol...

[hedstorm.net...]

[Teknorat]

cogito ergo pervello

[iamlost]

My favourites:
vita sine libris mors est : life without books is death

illegitimis nil carborundum : don't let the bastards grind you down

My least favourite:
mea culpa : my mistake

And for lawman, courtesy of Cicero:
advocatus nascitur, non fit : a lawyer is born, not made

[Woz]

illegitimis nil carborundum

I thought that was a type of Pasta Dish of unknown parentage. ;)

Onya
Woz

[iamlost]

I thought that was a type of Pasta Dish of unknown parentage. ;)

a contrario

[bill]

The one I live by:

semper ubi sub ubi

~ always wear underwear

[limbo]

Nil satis nisi optimum - only the best wil do.

As an evertonian how could I choose another :)

[trillianjedi]

We should try and get some of these into tomorrow's Word Game.

Bonus points for use of latin? A real good test for the throwers and catchers ;-)

TJ

[EBear]

The first Latin book I remember:

Cur ursus clamat?
Cur adeo mel amat?
Burr, burr, burr,
Quid est causae cur?

Appropriate for us bears :)

[HelenDev]

Am I the only person here who's too thick to know any latin?

illustrated by my absence from today's Friday Word Game

[trillianjedi]

illustrated by my absence from today's Friday Word Game

Pah - that's no excuse - you have about two dozen examples to chose from in this thread ;-)

10 press-ups Helen.

TJ

[TheVisitor]

qui me amat, amat et canem meam
- Love me, love my dog

quod cito acquiritor cito perit
- easy come, easy go

rarem facit misturam cum sapientia forma
- beauty and wisdom are rarely found together

semel insanivimus omnes
- we have all been mad once

[mivox]

ad astra per aspera

tatooed on my ankle...

[iamlost]

mivox:

Is the ankle from Kansas?
Or
Telling you that getting to the stars by walking will be difficult?

arduum sane munus!

I much prefer the words of Ovid:
caelum videre iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus
he bid them look at the sky and lift their faces to the stars

but they are not tattoed anywhere ... ouch

[Essex_boy]

Mivox what does that mean?