What is your favorite latin phrase?

Question

oh and if you can leave its meaning.

Answer 1

in vino veritas

Answer 2

Maior sum et ad maiora natus quam ut sim mansipium mei corporis...

Grater I am and to greater things i was born than for being an slave of my body

Answer 3

"Memento Mori"

Remember that you will die.

Morbid, but true.

Answer 4

si vis pacem, parabellum  

Answer 5

Justitia omnibus = Justice for everyone

Eram quod es, eris quod sum = I was what you are, you will be what I am

Vitiis nemo sine nascitur = Nobody is born perfect (or nobody is perfect)

Answer 6

CARPE DIEM

SEIZE THE DAY

Answer 7

vini vidi vinci

In hoc signo vincis

PS

Conqe tandem abutere J patientia mia

Answer 8

    Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.

    Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. (Catullo)

I hate and I love. Why do I do it, perchance you might ask?

I don't know, but I feel it happening to me and I'm burning up.



Who hasn't lived a feeling like that?! I think none!

(translation by http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/...

Answer 9

Quis ut deus--One like God

It's my name in Hebrew.

Answer 10

My very favourite is: Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) and  Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum (I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am) by the philosopher René Descartes.

My next favourite is:  tempus fugit (time flees), also tempus perditum non rediit (time lost does not return)

My life experiences have taught me that:

lupus non mordet lupum (a wolf does not bite a wolf), and

Mea Culpa (My fault) and mea maxima culpa (my greatest fault), and

sine scientia ars nihil est (without knowledge, skill is nothing)

Finally:

pollice verso (with a turned thumb)

NOTE:  I think that some people here believe this to be the official motto of Yahoo Answers since they use this indiscriminately.

Answer 11

Yesterday my friend asked me to teach her a Latin phrase because she takes french, and the first thing that came out of my mouth was:

"Multus sanguis fluit in villa"

Much blood flows in the house

Who knew I could be darker than Hello Kitty on Halloween?  I sure didn't.

Answer 12

"carpe diem" : 'seize the day'

"de gustibus (et coloribus) non est disputandum" : 'One musn't quarrel about tastes (and colours)', 'There's no arguing about taste'

"errare humanum est" : 'To err is human'

"facta non verba" : 'Deeds, not words', 'Actions speak louder than words'

"ne quid nimis" : 'Nothing in excess.'

"quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" : 'Who will watch the watchers themselves?'