# Favorite Motto/Slogan/Mantra? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 30, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480 "2011-03-30T07:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/21 "2011-03-30T15:47:00Z")
My favourite motto is a line from a Magnus song: _Rigardu, kaj vi ekvidos._ Look, and you will begin to see. If I am ever awarded arms, that will be my motto. > [@AppallingGael](#): > > Worst, against much stiffer competition: Michigan’s (“Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice”, or "“If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you”). The tourist board had their advertising translated into Latin? > [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > For some friends I have had t-shirts printed that say: > > **Yo no soy marinero soy capitan.** > > I’ve never had another motto printed, so I guess that is it. “Don’t marinate the captain in soy sauce”? 🙂 What does it mean? “Not every mariner is a captain”? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/22 "2011-03-30T15:52:00Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > “Don’t marinate the captain in soy sauce”? 🙂 What does it mean? “Not every mariner is a captain”? “I am not a sailor, I am a captain” from [La Bamba](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bamba_(song)). Gay friends seem to like it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/23 "2011-03-30T15:55:29Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > “Don’t marinate the captain in soy sauce”? 🙂 What does it mean? “Not every mariner is a captain”? It’s from the song “La Bamba,” and translates to “I’m not a sailor, I’m a captain.” I was dating a Spanish girl when the movie “La Bamba” came out and the song regained popularity. She translated the song for me, and I can still remember it. ETA on preview: I see that **don’t ask** beat me to it, but I’ll post it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/24 "2011-03-30T16:05:24Z")
Thanks! Now I’m going to have “La Bamba” stuck in my head for a week… ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/25 "2011-03-30T16:28:10Z")
Mine is ‘Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.’ Attributed to Stephen King (Hence the username.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/26 "2011-03-30T16:34:58Z")
Gandhi is supposed to have said, “Become the change you want to see in the world.” I’ve always liked that, although I looked unsuccessfully once for a cite that he did in fact say it. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/27 "2011-03-30T16:36:43Z")
If you can’t dazzle 'em with your brilliance, baffle 'em with your bullshit. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/28 "2011-03-30T16:37:32Z")
Never strike first. Strike second - and last. Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/29 "2011-03-30T16:39:23Z")
Life is what happens while you are making other plans. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/30 "2011-03-30T17:02:55Z")
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/31 "2011-03-30T17:27:51Z")
_Be who you are._ - from two different friends. _Be true._ - from the Thomas Covenant books. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/32 "2011-03-30T17:38:10Z")
“That’s how they get ya” ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/33 "2011-03-30T17:48:44Z")
Sixty years ago my mother gave me a motto nicely framed that I hung on my wall and have tried to live by ever since: It is better to be rich and healthy than to be poor and sick. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/34 "2011-03-30T17:54:12Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > “That’s how they get ya” "I don’t walk so that a child may live! That’s how it works!" ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/35 "2011-03-30T17:54:37Z")
“Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.” Have the verse (2 Cor 12:10) tattooed on my leg. It’s sort of the Bible version of what **twickster** said upthread. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/36 "2011-03-30T18:17:57Z")
The Lord loves a workin’ man, don’t trust whitey, see a doctor and get rid of it. Nah, just kidding. My current favorite is actually “Once you go black, you never talk to your uncle again.” - **lieu** ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/37 "2011-03-30T18:50:06Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Thanks! > > Now I’m going to have “La Bamba” stuck in my head for a week… _♪ Para bailar la La Bamba Para bailar la La Bamba Se necesita un poco de gracia Uno poco de gracia se necesita Arriba, arriba ♪_ ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/38 "2011-03-30T18:59:22Z")
Thanks, MOL. Now it’s stuck in my head too. (And did you know that it shares the same chord progression as Neil Diamond’s “Cherry, Cherry?”) ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/39 "2011-03-30T18:59:36Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > “Don’t marinate the captain in soy sauce”? That’s an important rule of thumb too… ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/40 "2011-03-30T20:04:44Z")
I like the one on Idaho license plates: “Famous potatoes” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480.md?page=3)