115 Sayings of Latin Origin

1. "Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou hast sore places." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "The happier the time, the more quickly it passes." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "Idleness is ever the root of indecision." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "Good health and good sense are two great blessings." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "Never take the antidote before the poison." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "We all envy other people's luck." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "The doctor is to be feared more than the disease." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "A learned man has always wealth in himself." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "Deliberate often, decide once." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "He who walks with the lame learns how to limp." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "You can never consider that as your own which can be changed." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "Dawn is the friend of the muses." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "Poverty is death in another form." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "Better late than never." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "Sickness shows us what we are." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "Never give a child a sword." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "Respect is greater from a distance." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "Deliberation often loses a good chance." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "Often there is eloquence in a silent gaze." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "To condemn by a cutting laugh comes easily to all." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "Danger can never by overcome without taking risks." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "Often a silent face has voice and words." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "Glory is the shadow of virtue." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "Stupidity is a force unto itself." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "Live your own life, for you will die your own death." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "The remedy for injuries is to forget them." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Habit causes love." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "If there is no wind, row." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "Beware the tyranny of the minority." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "All the hours wound, the last one kills." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "The will cannot be compelled." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "No man can swim ashore and carry his baggage with him." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "Who loses honor can lose nothing else." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "Talk of the devil and he'll appear." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "The more you give in, the more you have to give in." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "Nature is our mother." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "I don't want the cheese; I just want to get out of the trap." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "Whatever you do, do with all your might." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "It is easier to pull down than to build up." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "Many meet the gods, but few salute them." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "The future struggles against being mastered." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "Revenge is a confession of pain." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "Each man makes his own shipwreck." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "Many promises impair confidence." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "All things are cause for either laughter or weeping." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "Of no worldly good can the joy be perfect, unless it is shared by a friend." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "Make haste slowly." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "Light grieves can speak, but deeper ones are dumb." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "Vice is nourished by concealment." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "Hatred is a settled anger." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "What is worthwhile must needs be difficult." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "Ready money is ready medicine." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "To relax the mind is to lose it." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "A poor joke must invent its own laughter." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "Believe that you have it, and you will have it." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "Possessions dwindle, I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "No gain satisfies a greedy mind." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "To have nothing is not poverty." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "Practice is the best master." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "What is viler than to be laughed at?" (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "The tears of an heir are laughter under a mask." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "Every madman thinks all other men mad." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "We hate whom we have injured." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "He makes his home where the living is best." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "The people want to be deceived." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "Who loves me loves my dog." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "Laugh, if you are wise." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "No gain is as certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "He fishes well who uses a golden hook." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "Forgetting trouble is the way to cure it." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "Bad is want which is born of plenty." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "Each man's character shapes his fortunes." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "We start to die when we are born, and the end depends on the beginning." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "To win a war quickly takes long preparation." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "A man is not where he lives, but where he loves." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "He that would live for aye, must eat sage in May." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

106. "Our fears always outnumber our dangers." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

107. "Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

108. "Haste manages all things badly." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

109. "Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

110. "We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

111. "No man ever became wicked all at once." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

112. "He fights with spirit as well as with the sword." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

113. "Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

114. "The stupid fear fortune, the wise endure it." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet

 

115. "By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn." (Latin Sayings) Click to tweet