Pick your motto!

Wikipedia helpfully provides a list of London’s livery companies and their mottos:

The Livery Companies are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by precedence. Note that most are double entendres or puns about their Company’s purpose.

• Worshipful Society of Apothecaries: Opiferque Per Orbem Dicor (I Am Called a Bringer of Help Throughout the World)
• Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers: We Are One
• Worshipful Company of Bakers: Praise God For All
• Worshipful Company of Barbers: De Praescientia Dei (From the Foreknowledge of God)
• Worshipful Company of Basketmakers: Let Us Love One Another
• Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths: By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand
• Worshipful Company of Bowyers: Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt
• Worshipful Company of Brewers: In God Is All Our Trust
• Worshipful Company of Broderers: Omnia De Super (All From Above)
• Worshipful Company of Butchers: Omnia Subiecisti Sub Pedibus, Oves Et Boves (Thou Hast Put All Things Under Man’s Feet, All Sheep and Oxen)
• Worshipful Company of Carmen: Scite, Cite, Certo (Skilfully, Swiftly, Surely)
• Worshipful Company of Carpenters: Honour God
• Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: True and Fair
• Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators: Service with Integrity
• Worshipful Company of Clockmakers: Tempus Rerum Imperatur (Time is the Commander of All Things)
• Worshipful Company of Clothworkers: My Trust Is in God Alone
• Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers: Surgit Post Nubila Phoebus (The Sun Rises After The Clouds)
• Worshipful Company of Cooks: Vulnerati Non Victi (Wounded Not Conquered)
• Worshipful Company of Coopers: Love as Brethren
• Worshipful Company of Cordwainers: Corio et Arte (Leather and Art)
• Worshipful Company of Curriers: Spes Nostra Deus (Our Hope is in God)
• Worshipful Company of Cutlers: Pour Parvenir A Bonne Foy (To Succeed Through Good Faith)
• Worshipful Company of Distillers: Drop as Rain, Distil as Dew.
• Worshipful Company of Drapers: Unto God Only Be Honour and Glory
• Worshipful Company of Dyers: Da Gloriam Deo (Give Glory to God)
• Worshipful Company of Engineers: Certare Ingenio (Use Skills to the Best of One’s Abilities)
• Worshipful Company of Fanmakers: Arts and Trade United
• Worshipful Company of Farriers: Vi et Virtute (By Strength and by Virtue)
• Worshipful Company of Feltmakers: Decus et Tutamen (An Ornament and a Safeguard)
• Worshipful Company of Fishmongers: Al Worship Be To God Only (‘Al’ is spelt with one ‘l’)
• Worshipful Company of Fletchers: True and Sure
• Worshipful Company of Founders: God, The Only Founder
• Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters: Speed, Strength and Truth United
• Worshipful Company of Fruiterers: Deus Dat Incrementum (God Gives the Increase)
• Worshipful Company of Gardeners: In The Sweat Of Thy Brows Shalt Thou Eate Thy Bread
• Worshipful Company of Girdlers: Give Thanks To God
• Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers: Discordia Frangimur (Discord Weakens)
• Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass: Lucem Tuam Da Nobis Deo (O God, Give Us Your Light)
• Worshipful Company of Glovers: True Hands and Warm Hearts
• Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers: Amicitiam Trahit Amor (Love Draws Friendship)
• Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths: Justitia Virtutem Regina (Justice and Virtue are Queen)
• Worshipful Company of Grocers: God Grant Grace
• Worshipful Company of Haberdashers: Serve and Obey
• Worshipful Company of Horners: (no motto known of)
• Worshipful Company of Information Technologists: Cito (swiftly)
• Worshipful Company of Innholders: Hinc Spes Affulget (Hence Hope Shines Forth)
• Worshipful Company of Ironmongers: God Is Our Strength
• Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers: Join Loyalty With Liberty
• Worshipful Company of Leathersellers: Soli Deo Honor et Gloria (Honour and Glory to God Alone)
• Worshipful Company of Loriners: (Note – this Company has no motto)
• Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards: Corde Recto Elati Omnes (With an Upright Heart All Are Exalted)
• Worshipful Company of Management Consultants: Change through Wisdom
• Worshipful Company of Masons: God is our Guide
• Worshipful Company of Mercers: Honor Deo (Honour God)
• Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors: Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt (In Harmony Small Things Grow)
• Worshipful Company of Musicians: Preserve Harmony
• Worshipful Company of Needlemakers: They Sewed Fig Leaves Together And Made Themselves Aprons
• Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers: Amor Queat Obedientiam (Love Can Compel Obedience)
• Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers: Recipiunt Foeminae Sustentacula Nobis (Women Receive Support From Us)
• Worshipful Company of Paviors: God Can Raise To Abraham Children of Stone
• Worshipful Company of Pewterers: In God is all my Trust
• Worshipful Company of Plaisterers: Let Brotherly Love Continue
• Worshipful Company of Plumbers: Justicia Et Pax (Justice and Peace)
• Worshipful Company of Poulters: Remember Your Oath
• Worshipful Company of Saddlers: Hold Fast, Sit Sure; Our Trust Is In God
• Worshipful Company of Salters: Sal Sapit Omnia (“Salt seasons everything”; implies that “Wit improves discourse”)
• Worshipful Company of Scriveners: Littera Scripta Manet (The Written Word Remains)
• Worshipful Company of Shipwrights: Within the Ark Safe Forever
• Worshipful Company of Skinners: To God Only Be All Glory
• Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers: A Blessing to the Aged
• Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers: Verbum Domini Manet in Eternum (The Word of the Lord Endures Forever)
• Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers: Ecce Agnus Dei Qui Tollit Peccata Mundi (Behold the Lamb of God, Who Takes Away the Sins of the World)
• Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers: Amore Sitis Uniti (Be United In Love)
• Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders: Producat Terra (Out of the Earth)
• Worshipful Company of Turners: By Faith I Obteigne
• Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers: In God Is All Our Trust
• Worshipful Company of Upholders: Sustine Bona (Uphold the Good)
• Worshipful Company of Vintners: Vinum Exhilarat Animum (Wine Cheers the Mind)
• Worshipful Company of Water Conservators : Nulla vita sine aqua (No life without water)
• Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers: Truth is the Light
• Worshipful Company of Weavers: Weave Truth With Trust
• Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights: God Grant Unity
• Worshipful Company of Woolmen: Lana Spes Nostra (Wool Is Our Hope)
• Worshipful Company of World Traders: Commerce and honest friendship with all

h/t our Chestnut Hill office, which got us started with an article about Doggett’s Badge & Coat.   Good detail:

While anything remotely related to sports is being smothered with news coverage these days in Olympics-saturated London, there were very few here in the way of news media and spectators. This was just as well, as the young victor of the six-man rowing race, a 23-year-old named Merlin Dwan, was a bit far along in his celebration.

“You’re way too late,” a friend warned a reporter, as the sole camera crew on site attempted fruitlessly to conduct an interview.

Picture above is of Fishmongers’ Hall.