And she took from the bag ten or fifteen little candy hearts with mottos on them and she hunted through the candy hearts until she found a beautiful red one which she sewed up in me with the cotton!
"Raggedy Ann Stories"
Johnny Gruelle
But here I do first observe the fashion of drawing of mottos as well as names; so that Pierce, who drew my wife, did draw also a motto, and this girl drew another for me.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
This may be perceived in many of the mottos of our old nobility, which seem to have originated in some habitual proverb of the founder of the family.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli