Quotes / Smart People Know Latin

Doc Holliday: Now I'm sure of it. I hate him.
Wyatt Earp: He's drunk.
Doc Holliday: In Vino Veritas.
Johnny Ringo: Age quod agis. ^trans "Do what you do."
Doc Holliday: Credat Juddaeus Apella, non ego. ^trans lit., "Let the Jew Apella believe it, not I", equiv. "Tell it to someone who cares."
Johnny Ringo: Iuventus stultorum magister. ^trans "Youth is the teacher of fools."
Doc Holliday: In pace requiescat. ^trans "Rest in peace," aka "It's your funeral."
Sheriff: C'mon now, fellas, we don't want any trouble here, not in any language.
Doc Holliday: [to his girlfriend] That's Latin, darlin'. Evidently Mr. Ringo is an educated man. Now I really hate him.

— Tombstone

Lt. Rollins: How then do you explain that when the arresting MPs returned with you to that exact spot not 30 minutes later, there was no trace of this "Little Chicago"?

Klinger: Uh, they must have packed up and left.

Lt. Rollins: Oh, come on now, Corporal! Isn't this obviously a case of "res ipsa loquitur"?^trans "The thing speaks for itself"

Klinger: "Racial Pepsi Cola"?

Major Winchester: I must object... strenuously!

Col. Drake: On what grounds?

Major Winchester: Because... uh... have it in a minute.

Col. Drake: Major, we don't have all day! What is your objection?

Major Winchester: Just a minute, just a minute... "Unum pilule acetylsalicylicus, tres in diem, post sebum."

Lt. Rollins: Uhm, forgive my ignorance, Mr. President, but that's a term I'm not familiar with.

Major Winchester: Oh, don't know it? Hmmm!

Col. Drake: Well, I am. Major, I want you to explain to this court exactly what that means!

Major Winchester: ... "Aspirin, three times a day."

— M*A*S*H

Captain Picard: Quomodo tua Latinitas est?^note "How's your Latin?"
Wesley Crusher: Praestat quad prius.^note "It's better than before."
Picard: Oppido bonum.^note "Very good." Your Latin has improved.

— Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Game"

Agatín: "You are going to make that lady and that knight think I am a crook."
Fortún Paja: "That lady and that knight don't care by the likes of you, dear Agatín."
Agatín: "Pulvis et umbra sumus."^note "We are dust and shadows"
Fortún Paja: "I'm warning you: I don't know a word of Greek."
Agatín: "Vita est brevis."^note "Life is short."
Fortún Paja: "Even worse."
Agatín: "I mean: 'We are nothing'."

— The Sword of Saint Ferdinand

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