# Favorite Motto/Slogan/Mantra?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480>\
**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:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TexasDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@TexasDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasDriver)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/101 "2011-04-04T21:04:36Z")

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“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” Just because you have all those blinky colorful fonts and scrolling texts does not mean you have to subject your readers to them.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/102 "2011-04-04T21:41:02Z")

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> [@MichaelQReilly](#):
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> What is best in life?
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> To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their womenfolk.

“Hot water, good dentishtry, and shoft lavatory paper.”

Meanwhile I’m still getting good mileage out of _Illegitemi non carborundum_.

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**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-motto-slogan-mantra/576480/103 "2011-04-04T21:59:54Z")

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My personal motto: Laziness is the mother of efficiency.

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