Here are my favorites:
Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus.
{Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.}
And I would like to say this to some of the people I have to deal with at work:
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
{In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.}
Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades
{If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated, and much too close}
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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