PMAQ Mottoes and Quotations

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

ars gratia artis: art for the sake of art

found on a mosaic in Pompeii

cave canem: beware the dog

found on all U.S. coins

e pluribus unum: from many, one

Found on the $1 bill

Annuit Coeptis: He (God) has favored our undertakings, and Novus Ordo Saeclorum: a new order of the ages

Marine Corps

semper fidelis: always faithful

Coast Guard

semper paratus: always prepared

veni, vidi, vici

I came, I saw, I conquered: Julius Caesar

errare humanum est

to err is human: Seneca

carpe diem

seize the day: Horace

ars longa, vita brevis

art is long, life is short: horace

et tu, Brute!

even you, Brutus: Julius Caesar

festina lente

make haste slowly: Augustus

in hoc signo vinces

in this sign you will conquer: Constantine saw this in the sky before the battle of the Milvian Bridge

mens sana in corpore sano

a sound mind in a sound body: Juvenal

Canada

a mari usque ad mare: from sea to sea

Olympics

citius, altius, fortius: faster, higher, stronger

alea iacta est

the die is cast: Caesar, as he aws about to cross the Rubicon

audentis Fortuna iuvat

Fortune favors the bold: Virgil

rident stolidi verba Latina

Fools laugh at the Latin language: Ovid

Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word: Horace

difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it: Pliny the Younger