The Bloggies have a category for “Best tagline.” I’m rooting for MightyGirl with “Famous among dozens.” Although given her following, she might have to cop to being (gasp) popular.
My great-great-grandfather, “Texas” John Slaughter, a Texas Ranger, was known in his day for dispensing rough justice, and had an actual song composed about him. It featured the charming lines “with Texas John Slaughter men did what they oughter cause if they didn’t they’d die.” That may have been from the TV show (also listed on IMDB) but I think it was from movie (curiously, not featured in IMDB). Addie Slaughter, played in the TV show by Annete Gorman, was my grandmother. I should note that she was mortified by the disgraceful and inaccurate portrayal of her childhood; I know this because we made her watch one of the movies for at least ten or fifteen minutes before she got too frustrated with it and stomped out. I was pretty young at the time so I don’t remember a lot of what happened.
I’m not sure I have a real personal motto, but I often feel better when I remind myself of an old Chilean saying, one I learned early on but understood only after months of intensive drinking: “Filo, no importa,” “Eeeh, it doesn’t matter. When I say it, I allow myself to stop worrying about things that seem, momentarily, to be incredibly important.
Secretly Ironic 