List of sundial mottos
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Many sundials bear a motto[1] to reflect the sentiments of its maker or owner.
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English mottos
- Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun.
- Begone about Thy business.
- Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be.[2]
- Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays.[3]
- I only tell of sunny hours.
- Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours.
- Life is but a shadow: the shadow of a bird on the wing.
- Self-dependent power can time defy, as rocks resist the billows and the sky.[4][5]
- Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away.[5][6]
- Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow <ref>
Latin mottos
Time flies
- Hora fugit, ne tardes. (The hour flees, don't be late.)[7]
- Ruit hora. (The hour is flowing away.)[7]
- Tempus breve est. (Time is short.)[7]
- Tempus fugit [velut umbra]. (Time flees [like a shadow].)[7][8]
- Tempus volat, hora fugit. (Time flies, the hour flees.)[7]
Make use of time
- Altera pars otio, pars ista labori. (Devote this hour to work, another to leisure.)[7]
- Festina lente. (Make haste, but slowly.)[7]
- [Fugit hora] – carpe diem. ([The hour flees] – seize the day.)[7]
- Utere, non numera. (Use the hours, don't count them.)[7]
- Utere non reditura. (Use the hour, it will not come again.)[7]
Human mortality
- Ex iis unam cave. (Beware of one hour.)[7]
- Lente hora, celeriter anni. (An hour passes slowly, but the years go by quickly.)[7]
- Meam vide umbram, tuam videbis vitam. (Look at my shadow and you will see your life.)[7]
- Memor esto brevis ævi. (Remember how short is life.)[7]
- [Nobis] pereunt et imputantur. ([The hours] are consumed and will be charged [to our] account)[9]
- Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat. (All hours wound; the last one kills.)[7]
- [Pulvis et] umbra sumus. (We are [dust and] shadow.)[10]
- Serius est quam cogitas. (It's later than you think.)[7]
- Sic labitur ætas. (Thus passes a lifetime.)[7]
- Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur. (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.)[7]
- Ultima latet ut observentur omnes. (Our last hour is hidden from us, so that we watch them all.)[7]
- Umbra sicut hominis vita. (A person's life is like a shadow.)[7]
- Una ex his erit tibi ultima. (One of these [hours] will be your last.)[7]
- Ver non semper viret. (Springtime does not last.)[7]
- Vita fugit, sicut umbra (Life passes like the shadow.)
- Vita similis umbræ. (Life resembles a shadow.)[7]
Transience
- Tempus edax rerum. (Time devours things.)[7]
- Tempus vincit omnia. (Time conquers everything.)[7]
- Vidi nihil permanere sub sole. (I have seen that nothing under the sun endures).[7][11]
Virtue
- Dum tempus habemus operemur bonum. (While we have time, let us do good.)[7]
- Omnes æquales sola virtute discrepantes. (All hours are the same – they are distinguished only by good deeds.)[7]
Living
- Amicis qualibet hora. (Any hour for my friends.)[7]
- Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ [ac linque severe]. (Take the gifts of this hour.)[7][12]
- Fruere hora. (Enjoy the hour.)[7]
- Post tenebras spero lucem. (I hope for light to follow darkness.)[7]
- Semper amicis hora. (Always time for friends.)
- Sit fausta quæ labitur. (May the hour be favorable.)
- Sol omnibus lucet. (The sun shines for everyone.)[7]
- Tempus omnia dabit. (Time will give everything.)[7]
- Una dabit quod negat altera. (One hour will give what another has refused.)[7]
- Vita in motu. (Life is in motion.)[7]
- Vivere memento. (Remember to live.)[7]
Humorous
- Horas non numero nisi æstivas (I count only the summer hours)[13]
- Horas non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours)
- Nunc est bibendum (Now is the time to drink)[14]
- Si sol deficit, respicit me nemo. (If the sun's gone, nobody looks at me)
- Sine sole sileo. (Without the sun I fall silent.)
German mottos
- Mach' es wie die Sonnenuhr; Zähl' die heitren Stunden nur! (Do like a sundial; count only the sunny hours!)
References
- ↑ The plural of motto may be either mottoes or mottos.
- ↑ From Robert Browning's poem Rabbi ben Ezra
- ↑ From Henry van Dyke's Inscription for Katrina's Sun-Dial
- ↑ From Oliver Goldsmith's poem The Deserted Village
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Waugh 1973, p. 124
- ↑ From Isaac Watts' hymn Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.23 7.24 7.25 7.26 7.27 7.28 7.29 7.30 7.31 7.32 7.33 7.34 7.35 7.36 Rohr 1965, pp. 127–129
- ↑ http://www.collectif-paysans.org/tournevis/?p=640[dead link]
- ↑ Martial, Epigrams, book V, ode xx, line 13
- ↑ Horace, Odes, Book IV, ode vii, line 16
- ↑ Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) Chapter 2, verse 11
- ↑ Horace, Odes, Book III, ode iix, line 27
- ↑ Probably unique to the William Willett memorial in Petts Wood, England, which shows British Summer Time
- ↑ Horace, Odes, Book I, ode xxxvii, line 1
Bibliography
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