Latin motto thread.

[JVS]

Anyone know a good latin motto to adopt. I was thinking of: vidi, vici, veni

[Spacemom]

1. My mother's graduating class had the motto

Sic transit gloria mundi

Thus passes the glory of the world.

[JVS]

3. I read that as a rather foreboding statement. Was this a Catholic or Lutheran school?

I guess one could view it as saying that the students who go through the school are the glory of the world (i.e. really great)

On the other hand, I can't help but think that this phrase originated in a context where the very impermanence and perishable nature of "the world" as opposed to "the divine and eternal" was being emphasized.

[Spacemom]

5. You're right

The true meaning is "worldly things are fleeting"

which I don't think is an entirely untrue statement.

I think her class chose the meaning of "look at how great we are." It wasn't a religious school.

[keroro gunsou]

24. it's actually used

when a new pope is elected, to remind him that his new job, however important it may seem, is fleeting.

[Ptah]

2. Not latin, but I like it: Montana State Motto: "Oro y Plata"

[pokerfan]

4. Uva uvam vivendo varia fit

[HEyHEY]

6. That's a good black lips tune!

My family motto is "Serva Jugum" Keep the yoke

[flvegan]

7. Si vis pacem, para bellum

[Drum]

8. WV's motto:

Montani Semper Liberi...Mountaineers are always free!

:)

[MrScorpio]

9. My person motto when I was single: Testis, Victum, Venit

I Witness, I Conquer, I Came

[derby378]

10. Ne illegitimi carbunculi tibi in facie sint

Don't let the bastards get you down!

[SOteric]

11. Quid quid Latine dictur sit altum viditur

(What ever is said in Latin sounds important).


:hi:

[dipsydoodle]

12. Porkus excretia jubilatae

Happy as a pig in shit.

[no name no slogan]

13. vidi, vici, vidi

(seen on the marquee of a porno theater)

[pokerfan]

25. veni, vedi, flatui

I came. I saw. I broke wind.

[sarge43]

14. Mine: Poca sed bona Few things but good.

Nil desperandum: Never despair

Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet: He labors in vain who tries to please everyone.

Nobilitatis virtus non stemma character: Virtue, not pedigree, is the mark of true nobility.

Timor mortis morte pejor: The fear of death is worse than death.

Vis consilii expers mole ruit sua: Force without discretion (or judgment) falls by its own weight.

[Redstone]

15. My photography studio had the motto "Ars Gratia Pecunia."

Yes, "Art for Money's Sake."

We were honest like that.

Redstone

[lildreamer316]

30. Um..may I steal that ?

Personal use...

[BrklynLiberal]

16. "Cogito, ergo sum"

I think, therefore I am.............
(a Democrat)

[no name no slogan]

17. Res Ipsa Loquitor

The thing speaks for itself.

Used frequently by the late Dr Hunter S Thompson

[marzipanni]

18. Quando omni flunkus, mortati

When all else fails, play dead - Red Green's Possum lodge motto

[Orsino]

19. Cucullus non facit monachum.

Feste's protestation to Olivia that just because he's dressed up as a Fool doesn't make him an idiot. Literally it means, "a cowl doesn't make a monk," or as the fool restates it, "I wear not motley in my brain."

I can't vouch for the quality of the Latin.

http://www.bartleby.com/70/2315.html

[Kutjara]

20. "Wen Tir Ed Restabit."

When Tired, Rest a Bit.

[lildreamer316]

31. ROTFL!

Damn, ya almost got me.

[rug]

21. Spe Salvi

[Critters2]

22. Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda

Probably won't work for you, what with your being Lutheran. But still...

Or

Non nobis, Domine, Domine, non nobis, Domine
Sed nomini, sed nomini, tuo da gloriam.


From Henry V:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewbuPY3uGQ4

I love this film!

[keroro gunsou]

23. try this:

audentis fortuna juvat

fortune favors the bold.

[tigereye]

26. illegitimi non carborundum

but apparently it should really be "Noli nothis permittere te terere."


Evidently my 2 years of high school Latin improved my SAT scores, but didn't enable me to realize that my high school motto was fake Latin!

:rofl:

[Boojatta]

27. Use a search engine.

For example, you'll get this website.

The A's there begin as follows:

A bene placito - At one's pleasure
A capite ad calcem - From head to heel
A cappella - In church