So I’m in the process of designing a coat or arms for my family. The hardest part has been deciding on a motto.
What would be your family and/or personal motto? The only rule is try to keep it to something brief enough to fit on a coat of arms.
The World Is Subtle. 
My actual family motto is something akin to “It is a good day to die.” Getting more specific would be telling. 
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Hic Beati Esse - Happy to be here.
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My 12-grade academic decathlon team used Nulla victoria sine animus, and I still kinda like that one.
In my darker hours, I’ve been tempted to emblazon Per aspera ad Barstow onto the back of my old pickup.
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Why Barstow?
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Well, there are no good roads to Barstow, yet several promising ones lead away from it.
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My family’s coat of arms is a gold klongat below three stars on a green background. My family’s motto is Qapla’ reH!
The coat of arms that I use here is the coat of arms of my character in a tabletop RPG. The number five and the colours red and white are sacred to that character’s god, and the creature is a dracofelas - basically, a sabre-toothed tiger. That character’s motto translates to “The right path is rarely travelled.”
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Since I’m in a Galavant mood today…
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I know, I know. But:
honi soit qui mal y pense
Maybe.
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Let the abyss come and destroy the tyranny of hope.
(with regards to Clive obviously)
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you’re a regular. the motto ought to be “nunc est bibendum”
ah, never mind.
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Maxime innocuus.
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My actual clan motto is one of those fighty-killy ones (doesn’t narrow the field much when it comes to clan mottoes), which doesn’t really work for a deracinated liberal. I’d go for “It’s more complicated than that” in Scottish gaelic. Google translate gives:
THA E NAS DUILGHE NA SIN
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Or this-
est ad tempus statum perfectionis
Which I rather like.
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Coitus non circum
Eta
But in all seriousness it is nunquam non paratus.
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I just looked up the actual coat of arms for my family - there’s some variety in the interpretations, but the common theme appears to be a sweet armored pimp hat
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if it looks like a helmet for a frog - is it still pimpy?
(hmm. a moon and an arrow. maybe not frog but alien?)
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That is a surreal coat of arms 
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Surreal in the, “I wish that was mine…” sorta way. Maybe I should design a new coat of arms.
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