As I was perusing (sp?) the titles of threads I thought instead of "Battle Cries" or "Origins of Avatar Names" why not family mottos.
My family name is Kirkpatrick and our motto is "I mak Sur"
which translated to today's english is "I make sure"
Apparently one of my descendants was escorting Robert the Bruce to meet with one of his rivals. Robert met the man in an inn or pub and then came out. Upon him seeing Robert my ancestor apparently asked something to the extent of "How did the meeting go?" Robert the Bruce apparently replied "I think I killed him." At which point my ancestor retorted "I will make sure." and thus finished the job and earned the family motto.(how true it is I have no idea)
So there you have it I am a descendant of a back stabber. well on my dad's side and I believe pirates on my mom's side (her family motto was "To Kill and Conquer". Oh yeah and by the way the who pirates thing was something i got from her mother who tended to exagerate, but somehow knowing that side of the family it wouldn't be much of a stretch.)
I also believe I take the first motto to heart as i always have to make sure things are done the way they are suppose to and I am very reluctant to trust anyone else with other jobs I need done.
Anyone else have something like that?
A.
The Koga's family has problems, he coems from a long line of people who not only practice voodoo, but are not right in the head. (Which kindof go's hand-in-hand.)
Some of The Koga's mom's mottos:
"If you sleep with babies, you're likely to wake up in sh*t."
(This actually was an old Mexican saying..)
"Everybody has problems."
(How she feels about those who try to blame others or don't take action just because of thier inabilities.)
Some of The Koga's mottos:
"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."
"The petious pretense that evil does not exsist only makes it vague, enormous, and menacing.."
"Once the power of The Cthulhu has been unleashed, it cannot be stopped!"
Yeah, The Koga obviously has differant priroties then his mom, maybe there's a reason so few men are born in this family.. XP
No family motto, but a personal one lately has been:
"That which does not kill me has made a tactical error."
hehe WWJD, or Serve God, which over the years seems to me to have been captured pretty well by the Beatles; just let it be, when you can't, your usually screwing up yours or someones elses day.
Alsanii wrote:
'Apparently one of my descendants was escorting Robert the Bruce to meet with one of his rivals. Robert met the man in an inn or pub and then came out. Upon him seeing Robert my ancestor apparently asked something to the extent of "How did the meeting go?" Robert the Bruce apparently replied "I think I killed him." At which point my ancestor retorted "I will make sure." and thus finished the job and earned the family motto.'
Well Alasanii, my last name is Bruce, so I've got to thank you for 'making sure' back in the day... The Bruce family motto is 'Fuimus', meaning 'We have been'.(But not, 'we have made sure') I guess that makes me a has-been...from Scottish royalty to a humble DM by way of Glenlivet...
"If the party forgets to loot the bodies, the party forgets to loot the bodies."
I guess that makes me a has-been...from Scottish royalty to a humble DM by way of Glenlivet...
I guess you are welcome and isn't Glenlivet the name of a Whiskey Distillery? If you are near that then i do bow to you.
My uncle always says"Live fast, die young, and have a beautiful corpse."
I always say(in response to the phrase "You know what they say...")"Who the hell are they? And why are they speaking for the rest of us?"
My sister always says "I dont eat meat I'm a vegetarian."
Four out of five cannibals agree that vegetarians taste better. :-P
Being a Canadian descendant of both Swiss and French soldiers, I have no clue what my family mottos are. It's probably something like "Drink wine, eat chocolate, live full."
*shrugs*
My personal motto has always been:
Hope for the best, expect the worse.
Bit pessimistic, I know. :P
Mine is "Normal is highly overated."
Have fun or die trying
"The less anyone wants you, the less valuable you become, unless you truly want yourself." -Ashleigh Brilliant
That's my motto. I also sometimes remark, "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants." :-D
-Amber S.
I've been thinking about a family motto, since I've made a family for myself. Something that embodies thrift, hardwork and common sense. I have some favorite quotes I tell my wife and son, but no motto.
"He who realizes he has enough is rich"- chinese proverb
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"- an old Yankee saying
"Don't keep up with the Jones's; they have No f&$~ing idea where they are going"- me
Now, out of context I'd sound like I've come from a family of mizers. The truth is I'm trying to think outside the box. When I graduated unemployment in Canada was very high, pay was low, if you could find work, so my wife to be and I made do, and did what we could to get by. Now Western Canada is under going a massive, massive, freaking huge boom, thanks to Oil, and people are going nuts in a rampage of consumerism, at the expense of savings. I decided not to join in on the spending because: this can't last forever, and enviromentally it isn't right. Buying a mamoth gas guzzling truck just because you can isn't right, buying a Mc Mansion costs valuable farmland. Most of the guys my age are out working lots of overtime to pay for their toys while I have time for my family. Time is worth more than money because you can't bank it and spend it later, and everyone gets a limited amount.
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I've been thinking about a family motto, since I've made a family for myself. Something that embodies thrift, hardwork and common sense. I have some favorite quotes I tell my wife and son, but no motto.
"He who realizes he has enough is rich"- chinese proverb
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"- an old Yankee saying
"Don't keep up with the Jones's; they have No f*%%ing idea where they are going"- me
Now, out of context I'd sound like I've come from a family of mizers. The truth is I'm trying to think outside the box. When I graduated unemployment in Canada was very high, pay was low, if you could find work, so my wife to be and I made do, and did what we could to get by. Now Western Canada is under going a massive, massive, freaking huge boom, thanks to Oil, and people are going nuts in a rampage of consumerism, at the expense of savings. I decided not to join in on the spending because: this can't last forever, and enviromentally it isn't right. Buying a mamoth gas guzzling truck just because you can isn't right, buying a Mc Mansion costs valuable farmland. Most of the guys my age are out working lots of overtime to pay for their toys while I have time for my family. Time is worth more than money because you can't bank it and spend it later, and everyone gets a limited amount.
You found your family motto: Time is worth more than money.
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FH out
My personal motto is : "prove it."
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Well my family motto is “If you think he’s dead shoot him again”. I come from a strange family that was deported from Ireland to Australia to a penal colony and then 2 years later was thrown out of the penal colony and shipped to America for being to violent. I have looked into this and from the records he had a dispute over some money and he killed all of his horses, sheep, and his dog and nailed it’s head to the guys door over less than a dollar.
Given recent events...
Failure is not an option.
/thread necromancy
/d
I read on the Internet Movie Data Base that the family motto for Lady Tottingham ("Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit:) translates to "Free Manure for Everybody".
I have not been able to verify this.
It's not a family motto, but:
Legio Patria Nostra
"There's nothing like a nice cold beer right after a nice cold beer!"
Ultradan
My favorite motto of late:
"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences."
From Full Metal Alchemist if I'm not mistaken.
The Koga at a spiritual forum a while back made his DOGma. (Symbolic that the canine has the right idea about life.) Chaos magicians and Satanists liked it, everyone else not so much. The Dogs Rules To Life: (Lowerd to a more family friendly wording)
If you can't have intercourse with it, just love it.
If you can't just love it, eat it.
If you can't eat it, kill it anyway.
If you can't kill it anyway, pee on it.
If you can't pee on it, ignore it.
My personal motto...
"The courage to start; the strength to endure; the resolve to finish."
Go for a run!
Training for my first ever marathon...
Big D!
Heh, nice pun Big D. Oh, this was one The Koga used at a Christian forum to send chills down thier spine.
"Everyone always talks about 'The Light', The Light's so wonderful, so powerful, nothing is faster then Light!
When are you going to remember the universe is infinite and cold? Void of your precious Light. No matter how fast Light travels..
Only Darkness awaits it!"
Didn't send chills, one just claimed that sounded like something from Star Wars from a Sith's mouth and everyone just started laughing. -_ -;;
and of course there is the most sensible advice in all of English Dramatic Literature:
"to thine own self be true"
... And it must follow, as the night the day.
Thou can'st not then be false to any man.-- Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3
Generously dramatized from Socrates' "Know Thyself." :)
Seneca, in "Letters from a Stoic", letter 14, I think. It's about friendship and honesty - it's something that I think that people should read.
Another Seneca quote:
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
Possibly my favorite one, and one that's similarly related to being honest, is one that my mother wrote in a book (Women Who Run With The Wolves) she gave me.
"This above all, to thine own pack be true."
and of course there is the most sensible advice in all of English Dramatic Literature:
"to thine own self be true
... And it must follow, as the night the day.
Thou can'st not then be false to any man.
-- Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3
"Amen. That is mine as well... although I very often use one of these two: "How far can you open your mind before your brains fall out?" and "is 'anal retentive' hyphenated?"
Let me add another:
"When our scabbards are broken, we can no longer hide our swords."
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One I use as a rant while driving:
Lead, follow or stay out of my way!
BTW: I bought a minivan and now, no matter how fast I drive, everyone assumes I am a slow-@ss soccer mom and will try to run me off the road. I was flying down RT 95 at 80mph and some idiot passes me only to pull into my lane and slow down, so I try to go around. He starts trying to speed up so as not to let me by. Gods forbid a dude in a mini-van be in front of anyone.
I need to find some tough decals or something, maybe some flaming skulls or whatnot.....
FH (Rebel without some floss)
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Manomanoman, I hate that. Dude. You're in a hurry. Now that you're in front of me you're on a Sunday drive.
To hell with me and what I'm trying to do here, you have to call your buddy on the cell phone now that you're in front of me. You feeble narcissistic git.
Exactly. And people wonder why Road Rage is around.
Which leads to a Seinfeld Personal Motto I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to adopt.... "Serenity now!!"FH (I got all the prereqs for the PRC-Vehicular Barbarian)
I've always liked (in Latin): Nemo me impune lacessit.
No one strikes me with impunity.
And then, of course, there's SEAL Team Six's informal motto: WGMATATS.
We Get More A$$ Than A Toilet Seat.
My family name is Brennan which has it's origins in medieval Ireland and our family motto is SUB HOC SIGNO VINCES or "Under This Banner We Prevail" which is pretty F---ing cool if you ask me.
My personal motto is " EGO SUM " or I AM. Understand that and you understand EVERYTHING.
My family name is Brennan which has it's origins in medieval Ireland and our family motto is SUB HOC SIGNO VINCES or "Under This Banner We Prevail" which is pretty F---ing cool if you ask me.
My personal motto is " EGO SUM " or I AM. Understand that and you understand EVERYTHING.
Very cool; my family name on one side is Brennan also. Is your family patron Saint also St. Patrick?
Very cool; my family name on one side is Brennan also. Is your family patron Saint also St. Patrick?My family name is Brennan which has it's origins in medieval Ireland and our family motto is SUB HOC SIGNO VINCES or "Under This Banner We Prevail" which is pretty F---ing cool if you ask me.
My personal motto is " EGO SUM " or I AM. Understand that and you understand EVERYTHING.
Not sure about any family saints...sorry
..what I do know is that the name Brennan comes from around the 12/13th century, that the original Brennans were Norman settlers and by the 17th and 18th centuries were reduced to being highwaymen and brigands ( which is cool now - probably not so hot at the time ).If you ever go to Ireland , travel around County Kilkenny , every second person there is a Brennan ( or a derivitive such as Drennan or Crennan ). As a bonus Kilkenny city retains it's medieval look with loads of old churches,winding streets and castles. Worth checking out .
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Is everyone on this thread Irish? Jeez... Oh well. I am too.
Anyway, one of my family mottos (we seem to collect them) is 'Transfixus Sed Non Mortus' (I don't know what that means) fom the Walsh branch of the family (my last name is Mallon). We're originally from (read: before the famine) Counties Longford and Tyrone.
I've got a few personal mottos:
-WWBCD (What Would Bruce Campbell Do?)
-If you solve your problems with a chainsaw, you'll never have the same problem twice.
-You can't be out of step if you're still in line.
-Aaaah! Lovecraft was right!
-I attack the darkness!
-Mr. Shiny
My family mottos: the Welsh side: Deus Pascit Corvos which means "God feeds the Raven" (there is a raven on top of a lion on my family coat of arms) and the Irish side: Virtute et Numine which means "By Virtue and Prudence"
Fizz
Four out of five cannibals agree that vegetarians taste better. :-P
Thank you. :) You know I feel tasty? I always thought it was because I use a cajun seasoning shower scrub then lotion up with butter.
I suppose my personal motto has been "Do no harm." Regrettably it's more of a saying than a reality but I do try.
The family motto is "Fide Et Fortitude" (By or With Faith and Courage)
That's my motto. I also sometimes remark, "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants." :-D
-Amber S.
Don't get me started on that verdant menace. >:( I will masticate the wickedness right out of them.
Anyway, one of my family mottos (we seem to collect them) is 'Transfixus Sed Non Mortus' (I don't know what that means) fom the Walsh branch of the family (my last name is Mallon). We're originally from (read: before the famine) Counties Longford and Tyrone.
Yours is perhaps the coolest motto thus far:
"Pierced through, but not dead."
If that isn't a tough guy statement, I don't know what is. It's that guy who won't stay down and is still coming at you.
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Anyway, one of my family mottos (we seem to collect them) is 'Transfixus Sed Non Mortus' (I don't know what that means) fom the Walsh branch of the family (my last name is Mallon). We're originally from (read: before the famine) Counties Longford and Tyrone.
Yours is perhaps the coolest motto thus far:
"Pierced through, but not dead."
If that isn't a tough guy statement, I don't know what is. It's that guy who won't stay down and is still coming at you.
True dat. I now feel 109% cooler.
My favorite: "age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill."
Honorable mention to: "whoever said 'money can't buy happiness' just didn't have enough."
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My personal motto whilst driving is:
LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF MY WAY!!! usually when following someone who wants to do 5-10 mph under the speed limit, and I follow it with a hearty profanity if my kids aren't with me.
Incidently, since I have gotten a mini-van(4-5 months ago) I find that people assume I am going slow or old or stupid. I could be winging down the highway at 80 mph and some idiot needs to blow by me doing 90 to pull in front of me and slow down to 70. Lead, follow or get out da way, Bizoitch!
FH