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BME: Body Modification Ezine - The Biggest and Best Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification Site Since 1994. Don't Regret Your Next Tattoo. Written by: Jaclyn Popola Some common arguments against getting tattooed are "How do you know you're going to want that there forever?

Don't Regret Your Next Tattoo

Tattoos are permanent. What if it's just a phase? What if you don't like it ten years from now? What are you going to do when you're sixty-years old and have a tattoo on you? " Alis volat propriis. Alis volat propriis is a Latin phrase used as the motto of U.S. state of Oregon.[1] The official English version of the motto is "She Flies With Her Own Wings," in keeping with the tradition of considering countries and territories to be feminine.

Alis volat propriis

However, because the feminine pronoun in the Latin sentences is often omitted and the verb form is not inflected for gender, the phrase could be translated with equal validity as "One flies with one's own wings" or "It flies with its own wings. " If macrons are used to indicate the long vowels (standard practice in Latin dictionaries and textbooks), then the phrase becomes Ālīs volat propriīs. In 1987, the legislature readopted the original motto, which it felt better reflected Oregon's independent spirit.[3] The sponsors of the bill that changed the motto back to alis volat propriis included the Oregon Secretary of State and later Governor Barbara Roberts, President of the Oregon Senate Jason Boe, and Senate historian Cecil Edwards.[3]