# What's your Latin motto? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367 "2005-03-26T16:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/21 "2005-03-26T22:58:29Z")
Tu Stultes Es ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/22 "2005-03-26T23:38:43Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Apparently, there is no Latin for [Everything in Moderation](http://www.freedict.com/onldict/onldict.php). > > The Romans were such sybarites. Via media, “Middle path” might work in a pinch. I can’t find the proper phrase, but I do rememebr the one I liked that went “Anything sounds more scholary in latin” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/23 "2005-03-27T02:07:49Z")
> [@laurelann](#): > > my mistake, I just checked my latin dictionary after a dispute with my roommate… “aspera” is defined as a “rough place.” And the motto “ad astra per aspera” is actually the official motto of the state of Kansas. We translate it as “to the stars through difficulties.” ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/24 "2005-03-27T02:16:48Z")
Mine would have to be; _Dum Vivimus, Vivamus!_ While we live, let us LIVE! When I first read this about 35 ( :eek: ) years ago, I equated it with the then current ad for Clairol “If I have but one life to live, let me live it as a blonde.” ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/25 "2005-03-27T03:01:15Z")
Semper ubi sub ubi! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/26 "2005-03-27T03:17:59Z")
Cacoethes scribendi. Then again, I’m also partial to Non Illegitamati Carborundum, but _sigh_ it ain’t Latin … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/27 "2005-03-27T03:29:27Z")
We were thought that “Ad astra per aspera” was to the stars from the mud. I always liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/28 "2005-03-27T03:33:32Z")
I used to have “Dux femina facti” as a sig. “A woman wrought these things”, roughly. It’s from the Aenid, about Dido. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/29 "2005-03-27T04:21:31Z")
> [@picker](#): > > Tu Stultes Es By ‘you’, do you mean yourself or everyone else :dubious: I mean, it is _motto,_ after all. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/30 "2005-03-27T04:23:09Z")
Can somebody help me figure out how to get one of these things to conjugate a verb? I’m having to luck with that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/31 "2005-03-27T04:32:21Z")
Let’s see if I got this right… Donec aspiro, amo. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/32 "2005-03-27T04:42:06Z")
_Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?_ ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/33 "2005-03-27T06:21:48Z")
_Ego Macto Umquam Prorsus_ Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that it means: “I fight ever onward” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/34 "2005-03-27T06:48:57Z")
Ifelay uckssay. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/35 "2005-03-27T06:56:43Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Apparently, there is no Latin for Everything in Moderation. Everything? Isn’t that a bit extreme? I like _Uva uvam videndo varia fit_, just because I’m a McMurtry fan. (Roughly translated “One bad apple spoils the whole barrel”, except with grapes instead of apples, of course.) > [@Wile E](#): > > Semper ubi sub ubi! Even in bed? Sorry, I just can’t. I roll around too much and it cramps my… uh… style. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/36 "2005-03-27T07:30:56Z")
I kinda like “Montani semper liberi” (Mountaineers are always free). I totally don’t get New Mexico’s motto, though: “crescit eundo” (it grows as it goes). Um … right … ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/37 "2005-03-27T08:35:00Z")
_splitemus-ne_ For those who can’t recognize the first person plural imperative version of _splitere_, it’s a regular transitive Latin verb, meaning: to leave precipitously. Coined in 1983 by myself and a friend. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/38 "2005-03-27T08:45:00Z")
_Ad praestantius faciebar_. That is, “I was made for greater things.” It’s sort of my version of “don’t let the bastards get you down,” only with more of an ego-lift. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/39 "2005-03-27T11:09:28Z")
\Nunquam non paratus\. It’s on my family crest and translates, I think to: “Never not prepared.” Maybe. I don’t really know Latin. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-latin-motto/296367/40 "2005-03-27T11:12:04Z")
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