Est Quotes

#1. There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

Catullus

#2. Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.

Alfred Jarry

#3. Nemo Iudex in causa propia est
No one is a judge in his own case

Anonymous

#4. For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]

Juvenal

#5. Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

Claude Bernard

#6. The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless.
[Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique
In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

Ovid

#7. But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
[Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Tempus breve est, Ora et labora. We aren't given much time on this earth.

Roberto Bolano

#9. Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

Thomas A Kempis

#10. How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
[Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

Plautus

#11. Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

Ruth Downie

#12. Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

Nathalie Sarraute

#13. Video, ergo est," said Laurence, suddenly. I see it, therefore it is.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.

Jean De La Fontaine

#15. Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

Horace

#16. This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler.
[Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est,
Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]

Plautus

#17. It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

Philippe Quinault

#18. En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

Philippa Gregory

#19. Graecum est, non legitur," I finished his sentence, humiliated. "It is Greek to me." "Exactly;

Umberto Eco

#20. Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

Jean De La Fontaine

#21. Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?

Ben Aaronovitch

#22. Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.

Agatha Christie

#23. God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)

Charles De Leusse

#24. Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

Emmanuelle Beart

#25. Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Horace

#26. Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

Seneca.

#27. This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
[Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]

Martial

#28. Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Plautus

#29. Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

Voltaire

#30. Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#31. Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Richard Paul Evans

#32. Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]

Juvenal

#33. Ce n'est pas fini jusqu'a ce que je dis c'est fini," Rampling called out. "It's not over until I say it's over.

James Patterson

#34. It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

Pope Pius II

#35. In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits.
[Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est
Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

Ovid

#36. But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
[Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

Jean De La Fontaine

#37. What did the Romans say? "De gustibus non est disputandum": It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.

Massimo Marino

#38. L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

Blaise Pascal

#39. Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

Plautus

#40. Eh, ca c'est bon. That was life. Some days you ate the rougarou. Some days the rougarou devoured you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
[Lat., Ultima semper
Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Ovid

#42. Why of course it's unlikely!' I said. 'Oh, by far!
The awesome-est things in the world often are!

Al Yankovic

#43. Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
[Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#44. C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.

Patricia Briggs

#45. To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

Sallust

#46. This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
[Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#47. Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

Virgil

#48. But as you say in English, c'est la vie!

Jean Louis

#49. he's always walking about with a long face
il est triste comme un jour sans pain

Arnold Borton

#50. Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

Dr. Seuss

#51. The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L'instinct de survie - Prouve qu'on est en vie.)

Charles De Leusse

#52. Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#53. Il faut travailler sinon par go u t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Charles Baudelaire

#54. Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

Seneca The Younger

#55. La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

Blaise Pascal

#56. Bibamus, moriendum est.

-Death's unavoidable, let's have a drink!

Mary Stanton

#57. The difference between greater people and greatest people is the "est" which stands for "extra mile". Extra steps give Extraordinary results; Extraordinary people do Extra things.

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

Lucretius

#59. ...A thing that is worth doing at all is worth doing badly... le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

Beverley Nichols

#60. If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
[Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#61. dies novus est," he said, quoting one of Flora's favorite Latin expressions. "Tomorrow is a new day.

Gillian Anderson

#62. It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Ovid

#63. I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Horace

#64. Continental three-dollar bill, designed by Benjamin Franklin. An eagle fights a crane, with the motto "Exitus in dubio est," "The outcome is in doubt.

Kathleen DuVal

#65. Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

Charles Baudelaire

#66. Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
[Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

Ovid

#67. Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

John Knox

#68. This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

Antoine Lavoisier

#69. Evil" read backwards is "live." Demon est deus inversus.

Alan W. Watts

#70. Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#71. L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

Honore De Balzac

#72. CeNation. Wwe reports that last night at approximatley 9pm est. It terminated its contract with cousin of john cena, juan. The wwe wishes juan the best of luck in his future endeavors.

John Cena

#73. Life is a tagline, please compose it with your best-est knowledge.

Kaushal Yadav

#74. Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!'
("The Man In Crescent Terrace")

Seabury Quinn

#75. Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#76. Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#77. One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

Plautus

#78. Giving requires good sense.
[Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

Ovid

#79. Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
[Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

Ovid

#80. Une maison sans chat, c'est la vie sans soleil. (A house without a cat is like live without sunshine.) --
One of Julia Child's favorite sayings.

Therese Burson

#81. L'enfer c'est les autres.
aka, "Hell is others." .

Jean-Paul Sartre

#82. Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.

Jane Leavy

#83. Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#84. Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.

Gustave Flaubert

#85. There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!

Agatha Christie

#86. impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").

David Graeber

#87. Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.
(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#88. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#89. He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
[Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

Horace

#90. To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

Zeno Vendler

#91. I see is that there are many people who destroy their marriages because of one-night stands with someone else. And as the French say, "C'est ne pas grave." It's not something easy to swallow, but at the same time, it does not justify you to end a long-lasting relationship because something happened.

Paulo Coelho

#92. Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.
[Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit
Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]

Ovid

#93. Taceant Colloquia. Effugiat risus. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. "Let conversation stop. Let laughter cease," Luke read aloud. "Here is the place where the dead delight to teach the living.

Cassandra Clare

#94. Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Seneca.

#95. Pointsman is finding it much easier to of late to slip into a l'etat c'est moi frame of mind
who else is doing anything?

Thomas Pynchon

#96. Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus

Robert Galbraith

#97. There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

Juvenal

#98. Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.)

Horace

#99. If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Seneca The Younger

#100. To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.
[Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

Cardinal Richelieu