Who is God?

Greatnan, if you have an AltGr key on your keyboard that will give you a é if you depress it at the same time as the e.

I have to admit I had to look that one up JO4

[Quote]Non nobis solum. "Not for ourselves alone;" a motto indicating an ideal of unselfishness, and of a betterment of the self in order to help others.[Quote]

Sometimes seems to be the antipathy of the ideals of the 'Me' generation, doesn't it?

What about Nil carborundum illegitimi – Don't let the barstards grind you down?

Our school motto , inservi deo et laetare.

Hey Absent
I said that.
Keep up
Oh and you've spelled bastards wrong

Was that a typo absent? Or can you really not spell "bastard"?!

My school motto- Ad Astra. Nothing to do with Vauxhall...

jeni "Iuvenes dum sumus."? But we ain't.

At heart, ariadne at heart!

janeainsworth Sorry – I hadn't scrolled down to the bottom of the last page.

JO4 My typing has gone completely to pot since I acquired acrylic fingernails. Of course I can spell bar stewards.

To revert to Bags perfectly correct accusation about my knowledge of Dawkins' oeuvre; I thought it was against the spirit of Gransnet debate to dilute strongly held opinions with anything like facts.

Thank you, Anagram, I have to type a lot in French so that is very useful to know.
My school motto was a perversion of 'Love conquers all'. The miserable nuns had made it into 'Omnia vincit labor' - work conquers all. Typical!

again, lily!

Our school motto was "Action not Words" which we translated as "Sock it to 'em, gels".

Lilygran tee hee.

Greatnan That sounds positively fascist. Worse still, the saying love conquers all refers to the love of god, so you would have thought that they would have stuck with that.

Bags, it obviously had an effect on you!

lily ?

I didn't go to the type of school that had a motto

Greatnan I downloaded a free app called Lexibar French. It sits on your desktop or your page when you need it and you can drag and drop the accents.

WHere I went to school the motto was 'Virtute et Labore' -- and not once did anyone ensure we knew what it meant. Apparently, taking into account the infuriating Latin declension system irt comes out as: 'By valour and exertion' or perhaps 'By struggle and courage'. Beats me...

It's the motto of the Cochran clan in Scotland.

Thanks you, Mamie, I will have a look at that.

Ad infinitum!

My C of E primary school's motto was Quo Vadis. (I've never had much sense of direction.....)

My school motto was in English but the school song (carmen) was in Latin. It was a complete pain to memorise all the verses and we discovered that the best way to do this was to sing it to the theme tune of Z Cars.