More Latin Proverbs
- In matters of taste, there is no argument.
- If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
- Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
- It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
- War is sweet to those who have never fought.
- If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
- Don’t speak against the sun. (i.e., don’t argue an obvious fact)
- What is medicine to some, is bitter poison to others.
- They condemn what they do not understand.
- From the older ox the younger learns to plow.
- Knowledge has no enemies but the ignorant.
- All things change, and we change with them.
- The scar remains.
- In the most corrupt state are the most laws. (Terence)
- Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
- Do not take as gold everything that shines like gold.
- To quarrel with a drunk is to wrong a man who is not even there.
- As you are, I was. As I am, you will be. (used on Roman tombstones).
- Appeal to modesty in an argument.
- One corrects customs by laughing at them.
- Glory paid to ashes comes too late.
- Everything that is born passes away. (Quintillan)
- A fox may change its skin but never its character.
- We are slaves of the law in order that we may be able to be free.
- May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; And may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well
- I’ll either find a way or make one.
- The sun shines for everyone.