# Favorite latin phrase(s) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256 "2001-04-08T15:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![berdollos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@berdollos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berdollos)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/1 "2001-04-08T15:21:04Z")
My favorite latin phrase is “Cave Hominem unius libri” Beware the man of one book. It means, “Watch out for dogmatic people.” ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/2 "2001-04-08T16:01:59Z")
“Carpe diem”–Sieze the day “Carpe cerevisi!”–Seize the beer! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/3 "2001-04-08T16:14:30Z")
_Omnia vincit Amor_ “Love conquers all.[sup]\*[/sup]”— **Virgil** * * * \*[sub]_Sed amorem vincit allium._ “But garlic conquers love.”— **bibliophage** [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/4 "2001-04-08T16:36:40Z")
I’ll have to second the Carpe Diem. Unless you’re my eccentric friend, who just loves Carpe Bussem, Seize the Bus :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/5 "2001-04-08T16:47:54Z")
good morning friends [list] [li]oportet ministros manus lavare antequam latrinam relinquent (employees must wash hands before leaving restroom)[/li][li]si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades (if you can read this bumper sticker you are both very well educated and much too close)[/li][li]salve, opal! (hi opal!)[/li]scisne ubi pocillum coffeae apud hanc locum possim capere? (know where i can get a cup of coffee around here?) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/6 "2001-04-08T16:48:38Z")
I prefer…as Jay Sherman once said, “Carpe canem- seize the DOG?” Or, _in flagrante delicto_ 🙂 i’m naughty, i’m naughty. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/7 "2001-04-08T16:53:37Z")
**Cognito ergo spud** - I think therefore I yam. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/8 "2001-04-08T16:59:34Z")
good morning again friends. upon reading my post, i realized that i neglected to credit Henry Beard, the author of Latin for All Ocasions for the phrases in my post. i apologize. ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/9 "2001-04-08T18:14:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheLoadedDog \* > \*\* > > **Cognito ergo spud** - I think therefore I yam. > > 😃 > \*\* “Cogito”, not “Cognito”, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/10 "2001-04-08T18:16:04Z")
Do I need more than one? ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/11 "2001-04-08T18:19:57Z")
Personally, I think you are all mistaken in your picks. The actual best one is… **De gustibus non est disputandum** (There’s no arguing over taste) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/12 "2001-04-08T18:50:16Z")
_Si hoc legere scis nimium eridutionis habes._ “If you can read this, you’re over-educated.” ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/13 "2001-04-08T19:36:59Z")
It’s been a few years, but I’ll try to remember one we used in High School Latin I: “Veni, Vidi, Wastamus gluteus maximus!” Translated: “I came, I saw, I kicked butt!” ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/14 "2001-04-08T20:00:53Z")
Carpe diem et memento mori ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/15 "2001-04-08T20:18:58Z")
“Ubi, o ubi, est mea sub ubi?” (Literal translation: “Where, oh where, is my underwear?”) — Mr. King, my high school Latin teacher ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/16 "2001-04-08T21:14:49Z")
Licetne nobis ad latrinam ere? (May I go to the bathroom?) ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/17 "2001-04-08T21:24:04Z")
Ubi ignis est? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/18 "2001-04-08T21:29:48Z")
Oh and also: Nunc est bibendi. That was a Latin club phrase from my school, back in the day. Now is the time for drinking, or we must drink now… Or, Bibo sum ergo. I drink therefore I am. I think I may have conjugated the first verb wrong. Eh, close enough. And who can forget… Cornelia puella Romana est…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/19 "2001-04-08T21:58:48Z")
**bibliophage** wrote: > [@](#): > > Omnia vincit Amor “Love conquers all.\*”—Virgil Non pars omnium amor est? Et si pars omnium omnia potest vincere, non omnis omnium? Vere, si omnia omnia possunt vincere, omnia partem omnium possunt vincere. Igitur, omnia vincet amorem. ---
**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256/20 "2001-04-08T22:23:09Z")
_idly wondering where Maeglin and LNO are at_ Me, I like ‘Carne diem’. Meat day! 😃 I’m gonna use _‘si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades’_ as my bumper sticker. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-latin-phrase-s/61256.md?page=2)