Your Favorite Latin Phrases!

[AntonLee]

since there was a little debate, I figured I'd throw it out there for some who like Latin phrases. . .


found a bunch, even some funny ones!

Lex malla, lex nulla - A bad law is no law. (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Liberae sunt nostrae cogitationes - Our thoughts are free. (Cicero)
Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos! - You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me my money back!

[Kat Kanning]

How about carpe diem?

[AntonLee]

I like it

[Moebius Tripp]

Latin should be spoken with emotion and hand gestures, with some Italian spice thrown in for good measure.

[Humorrhoid]

Orimus pagispum
Chocolatte chocolorum
Amen

[Sam A. Robrin]

Just today painted a sign to carry into the city council meeting (where they'll be discussing weighty issues like the color of a local storefront . . .) reading "DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM."  There was some speculation as to whether anyone would understand it.

[Kat Kanning]

Just today painted a sign to carry into the city council meeting (where they'll be discussing weighty issues like the color of a local storefront . . .) reading "DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM."  There was some speculation as to whether anyone would understand it.

Heh 

[Puke]

Dulce Bellum Inexpertis
War is sweet to the inexperienced.

[AnarchoJesse]

Abolete Civitatem-- Abolish the State

[KBCraig]

"Argumentum ex culo" = "talking out your ass"

[Ryan McGuire]

Tu ne cede malis
sed contra audentior ito

Don't give in to evil
but proceed ever more boldly against it

(This is the motto of the Mises institute adopted from Virgil)

[Discipula]

Veni, Vidi, Venison -- I Came, I Saw, I Ran Over A Deer

=^_^=

[Humorrhoid]

Veni, Vidi, Venison -- I Came, I Saw, I Ran Over A Deer

=^_^=

O this is sweet .. I remember this one this is on a Philip Morris box.

[MTPorcupine3]

Veni, vidi, Visa™. Self explanatory.

Mea culpa. "My bad."

Quod erat demonstrandum (QED). "Told ya so."

In cognito. "On the down low."

Persona non grata. "Turd in a punch bowl."

Caveat emptor. "Deal with sleazy salesman, leave empty-handed."

Et cetera (etc.) "Blah, blah, blah."

Fiat. "Because I'm the Mommy, that's why!"

In flagrante delicto. "Caught with pants down."

Summa cum laude. (Also, Bigus Dicus.) Self explanatory.

Magna cum laude. (Also, Big Dicus.) Self explanatory.

Cum laude. (Also, Dicus.) Self explanatory.

Non compos mentis. "Crazy as a Betsy bug."

Non sequitur. "Talkin' outta your ass."

Pro bono. "Freebie."

Quid pro quo. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."

Modus operandi (MO). "The way you do that voodoo that you do."

Ad nauseum. "If you don't shut up, I'm gonna throw up."

Ad infinitum. "On and on and on and on and and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and..."

Sic. "See? They can't spell!"

Antediluvian.  "Before the big shower."

Ad hoc.  "Thrown together at the last minute."

Semper fidelus. "Like an old hound dog."

Semper paratus. "With rubber in wallet."

[coffeeseven]

Errae humanum est.

I live by it daily.