mottoes

Jeffrey knows one of my mottoes is "no friction, no thought".

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

In a list of dated church dials without mottoes from the Department du Morbihan, given by the same writer, the earliest date is A.D. 1550, from the church of Lanvénégen.

The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

Another favorite one of her many house mottoes is this cleverly arranged Latin one, curtailing one word into four meanings:

Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home" Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1896

And one of the kind of mottoes of the Obama campaign, other than hope and change, was don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2009 2009

The result of their labors was a big box of lovely-looking "mottoes," all neatly twisted into fringed or scalloped papers of bright colors.

Marjorie's Busy Days Carolyn Wells 1902

Two "mottoes," worked in red and blue worsted and framed with narrow cross-pieces of oak, hung suspended in the corners beside the fireplace.

Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897

He remembered that she had frequently been in receipt of printed elegaic couplets known as "mottoes," containing enclosures equally saccharine.

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

"mottoes" for the little beaux to give the little belles, &c., &c., &c.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

One of their stupid mottoes is, 'Don't be special, be one of us.'

The TV Column: Sheen's conduct spurs season shutdown of 'Two and a Half Men' 2011

Another one of their mottoes is 'Don't be special, be one of us.'

Plug Pulled on 'Two and a Half Men' Nat Worden 2011