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It could be your family motto. Or a personal motto that sums up your philosophy.
Why the F*** not.
Family motto?
FFS.
And no, that's not a motto.
Live for today, prepare for tomorrow.
"Existing is not living"
"You couldn't make it up" and "Hope for the best but prepare for the worst"
Family motto - Conanti dabitur.
To the one who tries it shall be given
Futuis eam, quod faciam
A day without cheese is a day without sunshine....
Try everything twice, just to be sure.
School motto.
Labor omnia vincit
It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the fight in the dog!!
"Don't trust anybody who has a motto"
Always get your retaliation in first.
Or
My arse.
"I'd love to, but my life's complicated enough already"
"Can't be arsed"
"I'll do it later"
If there's anything the wife and I do argue about its that I am chronically lazy and have a terrible work ethic, and she's damn right.
bibamus, moriendum est
Hey m1llh0use, that's the same motto as the City of Bradford
Really? You learn something new every day.
" I knew I shouldn't have done that"
Not catchy, but it's my personal motto (whether I keep to it is debatable)
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
bearnecessities
You are John Major and I claim my £5.
Its better to be lucky than good
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
Used to be go hard or go home but to be honest, these days it's more of the latter than the former..
I also like homo homoni lupus..
Officially, it seems it's "Over fork over". What the fork?
So instead let's have:
When the ocean surges,
don’t let me just hear it.
Let it crash inside my chest!
Anything worth doing's worth overdoing.
Assumption is the mother of all **** ups.
Odd double post an hour apart!
Question everything!
If you can't press undo, run away.
'Never nudge yer Granny when she's shaving'.
And.
'Never trust a dog with orange eyebrows'.
Regret what you've done, not what you haven't
- Guy Martin but applies to my attitude.
You can only p1sh with the c0ck you've got
futuis eam .. nolite solliciti eam .. quid maxime fieri potest?
You don't stop playing because you grow old,
You grow old because you stop playing....
Several depending on mood..
How well will this burn??
Oh.. go on then, whats the worst that can happen??
Thats easy..
Watch this..
I'll be back later to jizz on that..
Never regret a breakfast.
never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
Do not worry about that which you can do nothing about, as it serves no purpose!
- What's a motto?
- Nothin', what the motto with you?
"If your not going hard enough, go home"
More by luck than judgement.
What is your motto?
We are maggots!
🙄
'A man who say's no to champagne says no to life!'
Ne Parcas Nec Spernas (neither spare nor despise) and can trace our family tree back to the Dunoon massacre of 1646 where my great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great great,great,great,great,great grandfather who was a clan chief was hung from a tree and then buried alive, we tried to trace it further back but records were a bit patchy and unreliable, i do like our clan motto and the clan house, ardlamont although smallish would do me fine. Our lands used to encompass the Cowal peninsula and i spent a month wi a tent and bike exploring them a few years ago which was a strange experience knowing my ancestors lived there and roamed the land, i found the ruins of my great* grandfathers house....a strange wild place that gave me the heebie jeebies but i guess that was from knowing the history of what went on.
Old enough to know better, young enough to try.
"Talk to someone who's had a sh1t"
"It's hard to be optimistic with a misty optic"
'No pain, no pain'
Our house motto in the last year of uni was "Live like kings, die like pigs!" Not sure I've ever really moved on...
Work will set you free.
Although I am getting some funny looks from my neighbors since I had it put on my front gate 🙂
Do you live in Poland, or is your sign in German by any chance, stewartc?
Hate regrets more than apologies
"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom." - Byron
Because I don't really at hear believe in anything I say myself (Intellectually I'm a complete mercenary) and I view the world with increasing levels of absurdity.
Work will set you free.
We used to have a completely psycho middle aged female German teacher at school... who would come in dressed in black leather jackets, black high heels, black scarf, black trousers etc....and scream at pupils in German like Adolf Hitler. Total slave driver as well, she'd march up and down the class like a drill instructor.
We put a plaque over the entry to her office that read "Arbeit Macht Frei". She totally deserved that little bit of casual racism for dressing like an extra from a 1970's Nazi exploitation film.
Somehow I got away with telling her to go **** herself, answering every one of her German language questions with an offensive or sarcastic response (in German) and going truant during every German lesson - the school finally gave up and I just went to the band room to play the piano during her lessons. Truly hated her.
Good times.
Better to be a tiger for one day than a sheep for a thousand years
meh 🙂
"Fortune favours the brave"
"It'll be alreet"
"You want to watch that, it'll have your eye out"
Do as you want to be done by.
*post reported*
try to enjoy life
Mindfulness, acceptance and attitude - not necessarily in that order!
"If WD-40 and a Hammer doesn't fix it, you have an electrical problem"
or in all seriousness, "Every days a school day"
"You should regret the things you have done not the things you haven't done"
"It's your round"
This has prompted me to look up the family motto which is Vive ut vivas it supposedly means Live that you may live forever. I like it
"It was like that when I got here"
"That'll be my fault then."
Fabricati Diem, Pvnc.
(I actually have 3 that I try to use in daily life).
Treat others how you'd like to be treated yourself.
See a problem - Fix it.
Measure twice, cut once. ( not literally just to do with cutting stuff).
Chris
Here's one our Latin teacher taught us as kids,
Illegitimi non carborundum , which roughly translates as "Don't let the bastards grind you down"
For the pedants amongst you i realise that it is not strictly a legitimate latin phrase due to the non gerundive "carborundum" but it sounds good and is one of the few interesting Latin phrases that i remember apart from the boring ones.
clarum et Deus eos omnes occidere...
If somebody tells you not too, definitely do it!
You're a long time dead.
Fide et Fortitudine (Faith and Fortitude)
Old squadron (TCW) motto is "Ubique Loquimur" which translates to "We Speak Everywhere".
So applying that to sad track would come out as "Veho undique", ride everywhere.
IGMC.
Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre.
Work to live, don't live to work.
and...
Fk work before it fks you.
I like work 😉
From a friend of mine who unfortunately died of cancer last year in her mid twenties.
"Too blessed to be stressed"
'Chickens never win!'
Taken from my boss, if I ever think about not doing something I just hear his voice shouting this at me and end up going for it, whatever it is!