I know, the Times' motto is really, "All the News That's Fit to Print".
"At Time, my motto was, 'We explain the world to America, and America to the world,'" Stengel told me.
**This piece was originally posted on TIME's motto on May 5, 2016.
At the same time, the motto of Recte Aut Nil (meaning 'Correctly or Not at All') was granted, as well as John Brooke-Little's well-used badge, blazoned A Triquetra Or interlaced by an Annulet Argent.
Longacre altered the two-cent design by shifting the location of the two arrows in the design, removed the scroll on which "In God We Trust" had been inscribed (the first time that motto had appeared on a U.S. coin), and added a cross, apparently intending a pattee to the top of the shield.
The City at one time had the motto "my word is my bond" and proclaimed itself to live by that when it came to honoring commitments, mostly in share dealings and the money market.
He doesn't find it depressing looking at deaths all the time - his motto is "study the dead to help the living".
After such indignities, it was only a matter of time before the motto was changed.
Veritas temporis filia ("truth is the daughter of time") was the motto of Mary I (1553 1558), Semper Eadem ("always the same") was used by Elizabeth I (1558 1603) and Anne (1702 1714), James I (1603 1625) sometimes used Beati pacifici ("blessed are the peacemakers"), while William III (1689 1702) used the motto of the House of Orange: Je maintiendrai ("I will maintain").
Remember, if you need to send a jolt of electricity through your batteries and spur yourself into action, just repeat my motto from time to time, "Stop talking, start doing".
