List Of Latin Quotes

Mr. Speaker, From Hurricanes And Floods In Latin America To Earthquakes In Asia, Natural Disasters Are Increasingly Becoming A Regular Feature Of Life For Large Numbers Of People Around The Globe.

"true Science Has No Belief," Says Dr. Fenwick, In Bulwer-lytton's 'strange Story;' "true Science Knows But Three States Of Mind: Denial, Conviction, And The Vast Interval Between The Two, Which Is Not Belief, But The Suspension Of Judgment." Such, Perhaps, Was True Science In Dr. Fenwick's Days. But The True Science Of Our Modern Times Proceeds Otherwise; It Either Denies Point-blank, Without Any Preliminary Investigation, Or Sits In The Interim, Between Denial And Conviction, And, Dictionary In Hand, Invents New Graeco-latin Appellations For Non-existing Kinds Of Hysteria!

I Think In New York We Had Respect And We Would Pretty Much Fill Up The Places Where We Went, But I Never Got The Sense That We Really Were Number 1 Here In New York Among The Latin Crowds.

I Was The First Person To Come Into New York With A Latin American Point Of View Which Was Also Very Much Influenced By Political Happenings In Latin America.

So That I Saw Music As A Way Of Documenting Realities From The Urban Cities Of Latin America.

A Latin Teacher Told Me I Might Make A Good Actress, And That Stuck In My Memory. I Did Some Modeling, And Polanski Gave Me That Small Part.

There Is A Significant Latin Proverb; To Wit: Who Will Guard The Guards?

J, N. A Consonant In English, But Some Nations Use It As A Vowel . . . From A Latin Verb, "jacere", "to Throw," Because When A Stone Is Thrown At A Dog The Dog's Tail Assumes That Shape.

Tedium, N. Ennui, The State Or Condition Of One That Is Bored. Many Fanciful Derivations Of The Word Have Been Affirmed, But So High An Authority As Father Jape Says That It Comes From A Very Obvious Source --the First Words Of The Ancient Latin Hymn _te Deum Laudamus_. In This Apparently Natural Derivation There Is Something That Saddens.

Rostrum, N. In Latin, The Beak Of A Bird Or The Prow Of A Ship. In America, A Place From Which A Candidate For Office Energetically Expounds The Wisdom, Virtue And Power Of The Rabble.

Cui Bono? [latin] What Good Would That Do "me"?

Forma Pauperis. [latin] In The Character Of A Poor Person - A Method By Which A Litigant Without Money For Lawyers Is Considerately Permitted To Lose His Case.