motto• The Mortimer family motto is inscribedabove the door -- 'Humilitas'.• Try before you buy is a good motto.• "All my life, " said Sir Humphrey, "my motto has been 'aim high'."• Mind my own business, that's my motto.• But our motto is win with class, lose with class.• Brevity was always Britten's motto, as well as Verdi's.• The school's motto was 'Work hard and play hard'.• "Be prepared" is the motto of the Boy Scouts.• Peterremembered the motto he had chosen for the Emperor's LuckCasino in Emor.• That's the motto of car salesmen who have put up a gagboard to amusemotorists.• In a rare public statement, the toughundercoversoldiers - whose motto is Who Dares Wins - have apologised.