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Quaere.
Ask, i.e., you may ask now. Qualis rex, talis grex.
Like king, like people. Quem Dii diligunt, adulescens moritur.
Whom the Gods love dies young. Quem Dii diligunt, adulescens moritur dum valet, sentit, sapit.
Whom the Gods love dies young, while he is healthy, sentient, wise. (Plautus). Quem Dii oderunt, paedagogum fecerunt.
Whom the Gods hate, they make teachers. Quem Juppiter vult perdere dementat prius.
Whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. Qui dormit non peccat.
Who sleeps does not sin. Qui custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who watches the watchers?
Who guards the guardians? Qui rogat, non errat.
Who asks doesn't err. Qui scribit, bis legit.
Who writes, reads twice. Qui tacet, consentire videtur.
Who is silent seems to agree. Qui transtulit sustinet.
Who is transplanted is still sustained. Quia suam uxorem etiam suspiciore vacare vellet.
Caesar's wife may not be suspected. (Plutarch) Clodius was having an affair with Caesar's wife, Pompeia. At a party attended by Pompeia Clodius arrived in disguise but was recognized. Caesar claimed that nothing wrong had happened, but he still divorced her. Quid nunc?
What now? Quid pro quo.
This for that, tit for tat, a favor for a favor. Quidquid agis, prudenter agas, et respice finem!
Whatever you do, may you do it prudently, and toe the line!
Quidquid discis, tibi discis.
Whatever you learn, you learn it for yourself.
Quidquid id est timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
Whatever it is, I fear the girls, even those giving kisses. (a variant on Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes).
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Anything said in Latin sounds profound.
Quieta non movere.
Don’t move settled things (or quiet, still things). Don’t rock the boat. Don’t make waves.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
That which was to be demonstrated” abbreviated as Q. E. D. and written at the bottom of a completed proof in mathematics. Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
What is allowed to Jupiter is not necessarily allowed to an ox.
Quod medicina aliis, aliis est acre venenum.
What is medicine to some is bitter poison to others.
Quod nocet, saepe docet.
That which harms, often teaches.
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo.
What is not in the documents does not exist. Quos amor verus tenuit, tenebit.
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding. (Seneca) Quot capita, tot sententiae.
As many opinions as people.
Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales.
How many languages you speak, that many times you've lived.
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