Mottoes

East Asian seals usually bear the names of the people or organizations represented, but they can also bear poems or personal mottoes.

Given Lovell's Navy background, the logo also included the mottoes "Ex Luna, scientia" ("From the Moon, knowledge"), borrowed from the U.S. Naval Academy 's motto, "Ex scientia tridens" ("From knowledge, sea power").

Mottoes An armorial motto is a phrase or collection of words intended to describe the motivation or intention of the armigerous person or corporation.

Popular topics include designs commemorating births and marriages, family trees, and mottoes of all kinds.

Sometimes both types of seals, or large seals that bear both names and mottoes, are used to authenticate official documents.

Starkey Elizabeth: Woman, 5. One of her mottoes was "video et taceo" ("I see but say nothing").

Wilson (2005), p. 16. The rest of the floor is paved with encaustic tiles featuring heraldic designs and Latin mottoes.