The Wisdom of Msgr.

Rudy
Quotes

• If you are very powerful like Jesus, where would you want to be born in the
world? (to be reflected during Christmas Season)
• So much beauty could also bring so much misery.
• Everyone is handsome in his own way (esp. for mothers).
• It seems that it is part of being young or youth to make mistakes.
• If you see Kaye, I will kill her. (FUCK)
• In my weakness, grace reaches perfection. – St. Paul
• The purpose of language is not to bewilder people but to inform.
• You do not say conclusions. You may arrive at the conclusion.
• Poverty does not teach. It can teach.
• Growth is the only evidence of Life.
• The mind can be your greatest hindrance in life.
• There is nothing worse than being clueless.
• Al buen hambre no hay pan duro – Literal Transalation: At the good hunger,
there is no hard bread. Original Translation: For a real hunger, there is no
such thing as hard bread.
• Carpe Diem – Seize the day (Grab the opportunity)
• Nil humanum mihi alienum (Horace, a great Latin poet)
• Rain never falls on one roof.
• He who loves himself will not find many rivals.
• Because you are selfish, people will avoid you.
• Sometimes, we project who we are to or from the other person.
• See or look at persons objectively to know who they are.
• Sometimes, things are more expensive than us or our children.
• It is an act of humility to ask for help.
• Virtue is already a reward. Do not expect for more.
• A little learning is a dangerous thing. – Alexander Pope
• Drink deep or never from the Pierian Spring.
• Let your garden grow. Garden symbolizes knowledge.
• Man is always longing for perfection or perfect happiness.
• Ridicule is a tool we have for our worst enemy.
• The purpose of literature is to look at life closely.
• One’s man’s meat can be another man’s poison.
• What’s good for goose may be bad for gander.
• The wise man is not he who knows everything but he who knows where the
answer can be found. – Confucius
• What’s good for writers may be bad for readers.
• What’s good for priests may be bad for seminarians or vice versa.
• There is none so deaf as those who will not hear. – Moliere
• Balanced ideas need balanced structures.
• Love is the best doctor. Love is the best medicine.
• Your money is mine. My money is yours. (There is no absolute relationship.)
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 • We ought not to hate ourselves.
• We cannot love two persons at the same level.
• Blacknight it the twin of Death.
• Bonum difusivum sui. Good disperses itself.
• The best symbol of love is not the heart but the cross because the heart
stops beating but the man on the cross never stops loving.
• Love as a relationship requires time. Maker of hearts, make us one heart.

Vocabularies

• Fluff - something that is put inside the

pillows like feathers
• Chafing - napaslot
• Befell - gidangatan
• Thatch - gisursi – it refers to the method
of making a roof
• Chambers - mga balay
• Outskirts - outer edge, borders, bounds
• Weary - tired, tired out, sleepy
• Torta - pound cake
• Hibiscus - haybiscus, gumamela (Hawaian) =
antowanga
• Frangipani - kalachooche (Hawaian)
• Champak - book of song of songs
• Coutōurier - Couturier, dress maker or dress
designer
• Bakus - God of wine
• Bard - author of an Epic; an ancient Celtic
poet; one that tells the story of
heroism (heroic deeds of a hero or
someone).
• Troubadour(s) - wandering musicians who sing
at your door even though it is not
Christmas. Their favorite theme is to
glorify Lords and Ladies. They speak
of love for a woman. The lover is always feudal
vassal (man). The lady or woman is of high
state.
• Demesne - possession of land as one’s own , the
dominion or territory of a sovereign
or state; domain
• Domain - a field of action, thought,
influence, etc.; the territory governed
by a single ruler or government.
• Vagabond - wandering without a settled home.
• Genre - Ján-re

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• Objective - to focus on things outside yourself; to
correspond to things
outside yourself
• Correlative - so related that each implies or
complements the other.
• Objective Correlative -
• Slump - (vb.), decay, deteriorate
• Rugged - nagkagidlay
• Cheerful fording - boastful voice or sound
• Flinch - igking
• Lop - gi-abis (sideways); murag gihiwa or
gilaplapan pero sideways
• Shove - push vigorously
• Gamy - smelling or tasting like high game
• Perk - recover confidence, courage, life, or
zest
• Perky - lively, cheerful
• Chicken wire - barb wire
• Drooling - slobber, dribble, admire extravagantly,
nag- tulala, nag-nganga, somewhat
salivating
• Slut - whore
• Aphrodite
• Hera three beautiful goddesses
• Athena
• Quite (kwayt) 1 syllable - very much
• Quiet (kwayet) 2 syllables- hinaya
• Other - another fellow
• Udder - breast
• Carrier - it carries things or loads all
kinds of weapons
• Career - the course of your life or
profession
(Carrera in Spanish) — race
• Heroism (Hiroism) - great courage, valor, bravery
• Heroine - a drug
• Wholesome - healthy, nutritious, good, nourishing
• Ngilngiga ui! - Awesome!
• Aspire (Aspayr) vb. - seek, aim, hope, desire
• Aspiration (Aspi) - ambition, goal, objective
• Inspiration (Inspi) - motivation, stimulation,
encouragement
• Perspiration (Perspi) -
• Awful - horrible, terrible
• Awe - reverence
• Perfectionism - excessive attention to little
things
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• Apothecary - public medicine
- a place where a medicine can be
brought (for the public)
- Apo – Public, Thecary – Medicine
• Leech - a person who depends another person
for everything or something
• Brisk - fast, quick, rapid
• Mule -
• Emetic - something to make you vomit
• Infatuated - ni salig
• Beard - a hair on the chin or under the chin
• Bed bug -
• Zany - crazy, madcap
• Madcap - crazy, wild, zany
• Repartee -
• Chard - napagod
• Sham - fake
• Under cloud - secretive
• In a cloud - clueless (wa’y alamag)
• In the clouds - always absent-minded and fantasizing
• Mundane things - everyday things
• Señiorita banana - a small kind of banana
• Mumps - bayo-ok
• Spoof - to make fun (of) lightly and good
humouredly; kid
• Murphy’s Law - a person can be promoted
beyond his level of competence
• Naïve - sakto’s kahibawo, kuwang sa paniid;
innocent
• Satyr - a lascivious ancient Greek woodland
deity, part human and part horse or
goat; a lascivious man
• Mermaid -
• Phoenix - a fabulous bird that after a life
of five centuries burns itself to
death and rises from the ashes.
• Unicorn - a mythical creature resembling
a horse, with a single horn in the
center of its forehead.
• Pegasus - a winged horse of Greek myth
• Centaur - a race of creatures in Greek
myth having the head and upper
“torso” of a man and the body of a
horse.
• Sphinx (Greek Myth) - a winged monster with a
woman’s head and a lion’s body

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 that killed wayfarers unable to
answer the riddle it posed.
• Satire - ridicule; can cause laughter; to ridicule
in order to correct something
• Lascivious - inclined to or expressive of lustfulness;
lewd – arousing sexual desire
• Gander - a male goose
• Torso - the truck of the human body
• Lasso - a long rope with a running noose at
one end, used for roping horses,
cattle, etc.
• Lewd - vulgar
• Noose - rope
• Cynical - one who believes that only
selfishness motivates human
actions.
• Skeptic - a person with a doubting
attitude; one who maintains that real
knowledge is impossible.
• Turf - intentional grass (gitanom og tuyo),
straw
(cogon)
• Bamboo - a kind of grass
• Reed - “bugang”
• Bracken - a common fern used to
strengthen flower decorations
• Heather -
• Thistle - tunokon nga sagbot
(makahiya → equivalent)
• Rod - bunal
• Melancholy - depression, sadness, gloomy,
dejection, low spirits; masulob-on
• Hussy - a prostitute
• Rage - fury, anger, wrath
• Rag vb. - to tease or irritate; to
scold
• Ass - donkey
• Pedant - excessive display of
learning
• Pediatric/x - child
• Pedantic - dull
• Stray - wander away, wander off, go
astray, get lost
• Ruined - broke, insolvent,
bankrupt
• Abbes - feminine of an abbot
• Spawn - eggs, seed, offspring

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 • Turd - iti
• Opalescent - not transparent but pure
• Garrulous - tabi-an, talkative

Translated Phrases and Expressions

• Quite easy to yeild - humok kaayo; dali ra musugot

• On the other side of the coin - og sa laing bahin
• Going fragile by the day - cada adlaw nagka-fragile
• His fingernails dig into his palm - murag nag-kumkum ang duha
ka kamot (the two hands are
holding)
• He has the nerve to say that - nawong baya
• Shit! Shit happens! - Aw! Mao man kaha?
• The hell you say
• You could blow me down yawa ra!
• Inversely proportional to
• Stop monkeying around with
• Such a big hassle
• Too much work samok na kayo (kuskos
balungos)
• They give me hell
• Give somebody hell gikasab-an og mayo
• Just about right - sakto-sakto pud
• He couldn’t be bothered
• He couldn’t care less
• Clueless - wa’y kalibutan
• Get lost
• Get out of my face
• Get out of my hair pahawa ra gud!
• Disappear
• What a pity pagkaluoy baya oi!
• It’s a worst thing I ever saw
• You just don’t get it - bogo-a nimu oi!
• Not in a million years - di gyud
• One in a million - talagsa-on
• So what - sa unsa ma’y naa ana
• If that’s true - og mao na
• Big Deal - Ahhh!
• Of all people - ako pa
• No way! No! - wa ka malipong?
• I knew it - daan pa ko
• I don’t care - bahala na
• Chat their box - tabi-an
• My eye sa imong kagaral
• My foot sa imong mata

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 • It doesn’t make sense - buanga sa!
• Es poco mo. - gigamyan ka ana?
• Upon my word - bitaw noh?

Rules to be followed and Important Informations

• Creative - imaginary, understandable

• Embed or Shred - to form the past tense, double
the last consonant
(embedded, shredded)
• Do not shift tenses.
• A phrase is not a sentence.
• Periodic sentence is a sentence that requires a period of time (not time but
logic) before it is completed. It creates and satisfies suspense.
• Define Article - the
• Indefinite Article - a / an
• At (prep.) - If a small person or someone is looking
at someone or something big.
• On - abstract
• In - concrete
• Cowardly Person, Kindly Man - Cowardly and Kindly are
adjectives.
• In every corner - everywhere
• Worry about
• Verbose
• Cinematic technique
• Feet smell, Nose runs. Makes sense?
• Mammals have spines
• If it is true yesterday, today, always, and forever, always use the present
tense.
• The purpose of the comma is to make the reader pause or stop and think.
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books)
• Emphasize terminal sounds. Ex. Ami(d), Humb(l)e, Lou(d)
• Why – not always a question. Sometimes, a periodic sentence. Ex. Why she
had to go.

Lexicon:

Hard

- That which cannot easily be broken or bent

- Adv. forceful Ex. Strike hard
- Adj. Ex. The table is very hard
- You are a hard man – not gentle
- Don’t be so hard on me – unkind
- Hard look – to look intensely
- Hard as bright – Elementary Colors – Ex. Red Colors

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 - I’m in a hard way – financial difficulties
- We are being hard up
- The hard way – the wrong way (the procedure is not right)
Ex. I gave crayolas to the children and they ate it up. (consume)
- Hard at – working with all ones force
- Hard hit by – to suffer loss
- Die Hard – All the habits die hard. Adj. Die Hard – A die hard fan
- Adv. take long to die – Hierba mala nunca muere. (Bad grass or herb never
dies.)
- Don’t take it so hard – i.dibdib; take it personally or as an insult
- Hard put – nagbuang2x

The Citrus Family

- Orange
- Lemon
- Grape fruit (takoy → boongon)
- Pomelo (boongon)
- Merienda
- Dalandan
- Lemon → big and yellow
- Lemonsito → green and small