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Latin Proverbs: M

Latin proverbs with words beginning with letter M.

A Walk To Remember

ambulatio memoranda
A walk to remember.

With Large Flowers

Macranthus
With large flowers.

If I Cannot Bend Heaven, I Shall Move Hell

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Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo
If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

Religion of the Physician

Religio medici
Religion of the physician.

Where there are Men, there are Manners

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Ubi homines sunt, modi sunt
Where there are men, there are manners.

Experience Is the Best Teacher

Usus est magister optimus
Experience is the best teacher.

A Censor of Morals

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Censor morum
A censor of morals.

Do not Call Me, I Will Call You

Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo
Do not call me, I will call you.

Jupiter himself Is my Father

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Pater est mihi Jupiter ipse (Ovid)
Jupiter himself is my father.

Although that Had Been Declared a Thousand Years Before

Quamquam id millesimo ante anno Apollinis oraculo editum esset... (Cicero)
Although that had been declared by the oracle of Apollo a thousand years before...