Latin And Greek Quotes:

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

- James Rollins

source: James Rollins (2009). “Map of Bones: A Sigma Force Novel”, p.39, Harper Collins

topic: Latin, Haste, Latin And Greek, Latin Proverb

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

- Wilfred Owen

source: "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20

topic: Lying, War, Decorum, Roman Emperor, Latin And Greek

They condemn what they do not understand.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Latin, Understanding, Criticism, Latin And Greek, Latin Phrases

While there's life, there's hope.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Life, Hope, Philosophical, Value Of Life, Infinite Hope

While there's life, there is hope.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Hope, Latin, Life Is Short, Infinite Hope, Inspiring Movie

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

- Frederick Buechner

source: Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.2, Zondervan

topic: Faith, Latin, Hands, Spanish Proverb, Finnish

Hit the nail on the head.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs”, Berkeley : University of California Press

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Latin, Latin And Greek, Proverbial

Times change, and we change with them.

- William Henry Harrison

topic: Change, Latin And Greek, Latin Proverb

actions speak louder than words

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom, Broken Promises, Influencing People

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Latin, Teaching, School, Latin And Greek

I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.

- Freeman Dyson

source: "Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

topic: Fun, Latin, Thinking, Latin And Greek, Turned Off

In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.168, Penguin

topic: Children, Latin, Eye, Latin And Greek

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

topic: Art, Latin, Believe, Latin And Greek, Degrading

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

- David Crystal

source: "From 'App' To 'Tea': English Examined In '100 Words'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

topic: Latin, Greek, Vacuums, Latin And Greek, Cleaners

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

- E. V. Lucas

topic: Education, Latin, Greek, Latin And Greek

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

- Maynard James Keenan

topic: Latin, Europe, Names, Latin And Greek, Archetype

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

- George Orwell

topic: Art, Latin, Struggle, Vagueness, Latin And Greek

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

- Bernard de Mandeville

source: Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Latin, Military, War, Military Discipline, Latin And Greek

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

- George Orwell

source: George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1986). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: The road to Wigan Pier”

topic: Jobs, Latin, School, Latin And Greek, Snobbery