Some of these make no sense whatsoever.
| Family Name | Original language | English translation (if needed) |
| Hartcup | A coeur valliant, rien impossible. | To a valiant heart, nothing is impossible. |
| Carnagie, Carnegie | Alis aspicit astra. | Flying, he keeps his eye on the stars. |
| Perrott | Amo, ut invenio. | I love as I find. |
| Bacchus, Bedingfield, Buller, Chinn, Drake, Flounders, Gothard, Graves, Greaves, Illidge, Manningham-Buller, Wedderburn, Weston | The eagle does not catch flies. | |
| Bennet, Bennett, Creswell, Germain, Sackvill(e), Yoda? | Aut nunquam tentes, aut perfice. | Either do not attempt, or complete. |
| Bysse | Bis vincit qui se vincit. | He conquers twice who conquers himself. |
| Becher | Bis vivit qui bene vivit. | He lives twice who lives well. |
| Boss | Cada uno es hijo desus obras. | Every man is the son of his works. |
| Acraman, Anstey, Beadon, Berens, Bower, Brownlow, Bunbury, Butler, Cambridge, Cook, Coutts, Croft, Cust, Davies, Deline, Frank, Grattan-Guinness, Graves, Hall, Harmer, Hill, Hood, Longley, Lukis, Maitland, Manning, Mathie, Miller, Partridge, Pickard-Cambridge, Round, St. Paul, Savory, Sheriff, Sherrif, Sturges, Swyne, Thurston, Turnour, Woodcock, Womack | Esse quam videri. | To be, rather than to seem. |
| Wells | In scientia veritas in arte honestas. | In science truth, in art honour. |
| Haslen, Hasler | Qui nucleum vult, nucem frangat. | Who so wishes the kernel must crack the nut. |
| Wilson | Sequitur patrem non passibus aequis. | He follows his father with unequal steps. |
| Petty | Ut apes, geometriam. | As bees, geometry. |
| Hoskyns | Vincula de linguae vel tibi linguae dabit. | Lay restraint on thy tongue or thy tongue will lay it on thee. |
| Mackenzie | Virtute et valare luceo non uro. | By virtue and valour I shine, but do not burn. |
| Scarta, Scarth, Scras, Scrase | Volando, reptilia sperno. | Flying, I despise reptiles. |
| McGilevray, McBean, Gillies, MacPherson, McGilleray, Gillespie, Gillis, Grant, Keir-Mackintosh, McCombie, McCrombie, McGillivray, McIntosh, Mackintosh | Touch not the cat without a glove. (Touch not the cat, but a glove.) |
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| Robertson, Forbes | Dinna waken sleeping dogs. |
Credit to Fleur-de-lis