Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Nil satis nisi optimum is a Latin phrase that means "nothing but the best is good enough".

This phrase is the motto of

  • English football club Everton F.C. since 1878 . Evertonian internet users often use the abbreviation "nsno" to represent the full phrase. However, in recent years the motto has evolved into Nil Satis Nisi Optimum, Sed Quartus Faciam
  • Loughborough University, referring to its sporting and academic excellence. It is also the phrase used on the Royce Hall logo, one of the student accommodation halls on campus
  • Rutlish High School (London, Merton) Combined Cadet Force C.C.F. also use this phrase; it is printed on their physical training kit.
  • 967 (BAE Warton) Squadron Air Training Corps
  • Strathcona Tweedsmuir Private School in Calgary Alberta
  • G.O.Y.A. MS Recreational Athletic League, located in Philadelphia, MS. Their founder, Greg Hanks, is an avid football fan and combined Everton Football Club's crest and motto with Aussie Rules' side, Collingwood FC, to make the crest of his league
  • Westerford High School in Western Cape, South Africa
  • BPI Consultants
  • Dime City Cycles
  • the Football team of the Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario, UANL, en Monterrey, N.L.

Famous quotes containing the words nil and/or optimum:

    “Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Everywhere—all over Africa and South America ... you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There’s a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they’re terrifying, because they are the death of the soul.... This is the prison this planet is being turned into.”
    —J.G. (James Graham)