My personal favorites are bold.


REJECTED STATE MOTTOS
ALABAMA Literacy ain't everything
Ya want fries with dat?
In God (and Bear Bryant and not necessarily in that order) We Trust
ALASKA Come, freeze your butt off
If We Didn't Pay People To Stay, We'd Be Greenland
ARIZONA Winter home to 150,000 snowbirds
ARKANSAS At least we're not Mississippi
CALIFORNIA The Granola State
Nobody's actually from here
Fast reloading lanes available
The really long state
COLORADO Too wimpy to cross the mountains so we stopped here
Official home of the winter ski bunny
It's Hip to be Square
CONNECTICUT Way too close to New York
New York Is For Peasants
DELAWARE You'll need a map to find us
So close to Washington you can smell it
FLORIDA The Gunshine State
Elephant Graveyard; where the old Republicans go to die
Senior citizen discounts available
Come, enjoy the humidity
The snow capital of the US
We Take Geritol, Every Day
GEORGIA Home of the Rednecks
Gateway to Florida
Confederate money welcome
HAWAII Sure, we've got Interstates... drive on over
Book 'em Danno
Tom Selik, Jack Lord, Don Ho - Paradise!
Come, get lai-ed
We're Just A Big Volcanic Rock With Good Waves
IDAHO Ain't nothing here
We don't care if you spell potato with an "e"
Land of a billion "eyes"
That Kooky Potato State Shaped Like A Spout
ILLINOIS Land of the voting dead
Gateway to Iowa
INDIANA Home of David Letterman
Hoosier Daddy?
IOWA Just east of Omaha
It's easy to spell
KANSAS Hayfever capital of the Midwest
Dole slept here
There's no place like home
Ya want flat, we got flat
KENTUCKY Tobacco is a vegetable
We're all related
Gateway to Nashville
LOUISIANA Swim the beautiful Bayou
Cancer Alley's just a name, and names will never hurt you
MAINE Go Away, Leave Us Alone
You can spit on Canada from here
MARYLAND If it weren't for Washington, you couldn't find us
Not a Suburb of D.C.
MASSACHUSETTS We'll Breed More Kennedys Than You Can Kill
Home of the young girls from Nantucket, also the home of Ted Kennedy, hmmmm...
MICHIGAN Land of the free, home of the Buick
MINNESOTA Sure beats Canada
Not Sweden, but we try to act like it
For Sale
MISSISSIPPI We're lucky we can spell it
Why would you want to come here?
MISSOURI Gateway to Kansas
Here's mine, Show Me yours
We're better than Illinois
MONTANA Land of the Big Sky, and very little else
We've got lots of 10'x10' shacks in the woods
It's where you're wanted.
At least our cows are sane.
NEBRASKA More corn than Kansas
Go to Kansas, turn north
Eat Corn, Beat Oklahoma, Nothing Else Matters
NEVADA More weirdos than Alaska (warmer too)
2 words - Death Valley
3:5 you'll leave broke
We have our own nuclear testing site
NEW HAMPSHIRE Like Old Hampshire, only newer
About as exciting as Vermont
We're The Upside-Down Vermont
NEW JERSEY You have the right to remain silent, You have the right to an attorney...
Tell 'em Guido sent ya
NEW MEXICO Lizards make excellent pets
We have reservations
Alien Welcome Center - Roswell
NEW YORK At least we're not New Jersey!
We're more than a big city; we're a state
Like we CARE about a motto
English spoken here; sometimes
NORTH CAROLINA Five million people; Fifteen last names
We're bigger than South Carolina
NORTH DAKOTA We've Been Annexed By Canada and No One Noticed
The OTHER South Dakota
OHIO Don't judge us by Cleveland
Proud polluters of Lake Erie
We're easy to spell
OKLAHOMA We're OK, you're NOT!
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto
OREGON As pretty as California but not as weird
We're not named after a musical instrument
You can see the sunset from here
PENNSYLVANIA Cook with coal
Free lub job with oil change
RHODE ISLAND You Can Spit Across Our State
Size ain't everything
Nobody famous came from Rhode Island
SOUTH CAROLINA Just south of North Carolina
SOUTH DAKOTA Closer than North Dakota
TENNESSEE The Educashun State
Thank goodness we've still got Elvis
A great fixer-upper
TEXAS Si Hablo Ingles
See, EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas!
UTAH Our Jesus is better than your Jesus
At least our sheep can't talk
VERMONT Bet ya can't name 2 of our towns
We're The Upside-Down New Hampshire
VIRGINIA We Don't Know Anyone in West Virginia
Please don't confuse us with West Virginia!
WASHINGTON We like our state, so STAY OUT!
Decaf??? Are You NUTS!!!
WEST VIRGINIA Where "family values" has a different meaning
WISCONSIN Land of funny accents.
Say "Cheeeese"
The Cheese Stands Alone
WYOMING Where men are lonely and sheep are scared