Top 1200 Latin Proverb Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

I'm hoping my play opens up conversations, I hope it makes people question textbooks, I hope it makes #OscarsSoWhite and #HollywoodSoWhite question things. I hope my play sparks conversation between Latin kids and Latin parents and people start doing their own due diligence as well, I think it's everyone's responsibility.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out and is pulling out: It's successful; it's democratizing; it's economically developing; and it's free from the shrapnel of US imperialism for 25 years. Meanwhile, Western Europe is destroying itself systematically, destroying itself going in the opposite direction.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two characters [Nikola Tesla and Leon Teremin] who were brought together. That made it fascinating to me. And especially the language they made up, that Klaatu speaks. Because it has a Latin word order. It's like medieval Latin, but it had some Navajo phonemes in it and that kind of stuff.

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. Mechanisms of exploitation were imposed, such as outsourcing, labor mediation, and the like.The results are plain to see: greater inequality in Latin America; unemployment is higher than in previous decades; we haven't resolved the problem of poverty; we've lost a great deal of sovereignty.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.