Latin LOLCat: Learning

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Errando discitur.

One learns by making mistakes.

Latin LOLCat: More Boldly

Here is today's Latin LOLCat: The Latin words are from Vergil's Aeneid. Captain James Kirk may have gone forth boldly, but this kitteh is going for more boldly! The Latin comparative forms are often used like this to express intensity, i.e. "I will go forth very boldly indeed." If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Audentior ibo.

I will go forth more boldly.

Latin LOLCat: Writing

Here is today's Latin LOLCat: The Latin verb scribere which you see here gives us the English word "scribe." More about the etymology here. It also gives us scribble. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Scribendo disces scribere.

You will learn to write by writing.

Latin LOLCat: Wisdom

Here is today's Latin LOLCat; you can see a very similar rhyme in this poster (it's common for there to be little variations like this from one version of a proverb to another). If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Discat, qui nescit, nam sic sapientia crescit.

Let him learn who does not know, for thus does knowledge grow.

Poster: Adjust the Sails

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

(German proverb)

The source for the proverb is David Crystal's book, As They Say in Zanzibar: Proverbial Wisdom from Around the World (Oxford University Press: 2006). Crystal does not provide the proverbs in the original, but I would guess this might be the German: Wir können den Wind nicht ändern, aber die Segel anders setzen.

The image is by paslotte at Flickr.

The poster is made with AutoMotivator.

Latin LOLCat: Hard work

Here is today's Latin LOLCat: This is the motto of some branches of the Campbell family. If you are interested in Latin proverbs, mottoes, and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog. I'm not really sure what's going on with this picture, but if this cat is rolling a watermelon out of a lake, hey, that counts as labor for sure! :-)

Labor omnia superat.

Hard work overcomes all things.

Poster: Cracow

Cracow wasn't built in a day.
(Polish: Nie od razu Kraków zbudowano.)

The poster is made with AutoMotivator. The image is of Wawel Castle in Cracow; it's by David Samuel Sants at Flickr.

Poster: Fall Down and Get Up

Fall down seven times, get up eight.
(Japanese proverb)

The source for the proverb is David Crystal's book, As They Say in Zanzibar: Proverbial Wisdom from Around the World (Oxford University Press: 2006).
The image is by janetmck at Flickr.
The poster is made with AutoMotivator.

Poster: They Make Erasers

They wouldn’t make erasers if we didn’t make mistakes.
(Proverb from the USA)

The source for the proverb is David Crystal's book, As They Say in Zanzibar: Proverbial Wisdom from Around the World (Oxford University Press: 2006).

The image is by theilr at Flickr.

The poster is made with AutoMotivator.