Vagabond Multilingual Journal Spring 2014 | Page 42

Famous Latin Sayings

Olaya D. Barr

yolo yolare yolavi yolatus. v. intrans.
To only live once, or to behave as if that were the case.
Yolemus atque amemus, mea Lesbia.
Let us YOLO, and let us love, my Lesbia.
Yolare aut non yolare; hic est rogatio,
To YOLO or not to YOLO, this is the question.
Yolaturi te salutamus.
We who are about to YOLO salute you.
Pecuniam non yolat.
Money doesn’t YOLO.
Yolet emptor.
Let the buyer YOLO.
Yolare humanum est
To YOLO is human.
Veni, vici, yolavi.
I came, I conquered, I YOLOed.

Fortuna yolantibus favet
Fortune favors those who YOLO.

Yolo ergo sum
I YOLO, therefore I am.

Mens sana in corpore yolante
A sound mind in a YOLOing body.

Dum spiro, yolo
While I hope, I YOLO.

Non est vivere sed yolare vita est
Life is not to live, but to YOLO.
Ave atque yola!
Goodbye, and YOLO!

by Ashley Gau
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