Clan mottoes...

[Siosal]

Clan Chisholm
gaelic: Siosal
motto: feros ferio (I am fierce with the fierce)

[An t-Ileach]

And let's not forget the Domhnallaich - the MacDonalds:



Per Mare Per Terras - By Sea, By Lands

Clan Cumming/Comyn

Motto: Courage!
Slogan: "An Cuimeanach! An Cuimeanach!"
Pipe Music: "Willie Cumming's Rant"
Proverb: "Chad's bhios maide anns a' choill cha bhi foill an Cuimeanach."
("So long as there is a stick in the wood, there will be no treachery in a Cumming.")

Yours Aye,

Todd

I'm fascinated by the amount of Gaelic in use among clans from areas that the Conventional Wisdom (read "Scottish Parliament") decides are not from Gaelic areas for the purpose of watering down the Gaelic Language Bill.

[Barclay]

Touch not the cat bot a glove. (If you mess with this bunch, come prepared.)

I'm MacQueen sept of Clan Chattan on my mother's side. ( Here kitty, kitty! )

Barclay - "Aut Agere Aut Mori" = "Either action or death"

Apparently I come from fighting stock on both sides, eh?

Great thread!

[McClef]

But it's not as if they go around speaking Latin instead!

It's a pity that Scotland didn't have a Saunders Lewis. The SNP doesn't have the same connections with the language of the country the way Plaid Cymru does.

[Shane]

Learmonth:

Dum Spiro Spero = While I live I hope

Often shortened to:

Spero = I hope



Shane

[McClef]

Dum Spiro Spero is also the motto of St Andrews University

[Rampant Lion]

The Grant motto is: Stand Fast
The war cry is: Stand Fast Craigellachie!

[bikercelt1]

Since Gordon is "Abiding" or "Stand Fast" (ByDand) and Anderson is "Stand Sure" I guess it's no wonder I can be stubborn (or obstinant if you're less charitable like my mother ).

Jamie

[Kilted KT]

Too bad Bruce can't make that same claim due to his fun with a particular red comyn at Greyfriars.


My personal mottoes:

Calca Non-> "Tread Not!"
Shortened version of:
Calca Non Meum-> "Don't Tread on Me"
Badge-> coiled snake (with yellow livery color background)

Resurgens: "Being reborn" or "resurrecting"
-Also the motto of Atlanta
Badge-> Pheonix

Pro Gloria Dei-> "For the Glory of God"
Badge-> Pheonix

"Don't tread on me" has a long history in the US.

here is a link to one of it's more popular uses on a flag during the early years of US history.
http://www.foundingfathers.info/stories/gadsden.html

[David White]

Patton sept of MacLean-"Virtue mine honour"

Lamont-"Neither spare nor dispose" or MacGregor-"My race is royal"
I can't be to sure with a surname of White, common alias.

Buchanan- Clarior hinc Honos - "Brighter hence the honour"