Latin Quotes - Page 35

• America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Good Friend, Europe, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

  Publilius Syrus

  Love, Wise, Hard

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• If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

  Heinrich Heine

  Funny, Life, Education

  As quoted in "The Medical Record", No. 674, October 6, 1883.

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• If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem.

  Jason Hawes

  Cat, Might, Ghost

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• I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

  Max Fisher

  Saved

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• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Reality, Eugenics, America

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Football, English Grammar

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• Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Economic Models, America

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• To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

  Billie Burke

  Ambition, Ego, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

  Bill Bryson

  Simple, English Grammar, Confusing

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• My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.

  Cameron Diaz

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  "Celebrity Beauty: Cameron Diaz". www.realself.com. May 14, 2007.

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• There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

  David Whyte

  Humility, Pride, Roots

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• A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

  Brander Matthews

  Education, Humorous, Learning

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• Whoever desires is always poor.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Desire, Poor

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• I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Past, Land, America

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• Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Learning, Advice, Use

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1411, Barbour Publishing

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• The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Believe, Gun

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• That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

  Saint Patrick

  Believe, Doe, Lied

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• We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

  Penelope Lively

  Museums, Lexicon, Each Day

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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