List of sundial mottos

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.
• Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays.
• Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays.
• I only tell of sunny hours.
• I count only sunny hours.
• Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours.
• Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only count your sunny hours. Has date of 1767
• 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.
• Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away.
• Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow
• When I am gone, mark not the passing of the hours, but just that love lives on.
• The Concern of the Rich and the Poor

  Latin mottos

Time flies

• Hora fugit, ne tardes.
• Ruit hora.
• Tempus breve est.
• Tempus fugit .
• Tempus volat, hora fugit.

  Make use of time

• Altera pars otio, pars ista labori.
• Festina lente.
• – carpe diem.
• Utere, non numera.
• Utere non reditura.

  Human mortality

• Ex iis unam cave.
• Lente hora, celeriter anni.
• Meam vide umbram, tuam videbis vitam.
• Memor esto brevis ævi.
• Mox nox.
• pereunt et imputantur.
• Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat.
• umbra sumus.
• Serius est quam cogitas.
• Sic labitur ætas.
• Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur.
• Ultima latet ut observentur omnes.
• Umbra sicut hominis vita.
• Una ex his erit tibi ultima.
• Ver non semper viret.
• Vita fugit, sicut umbra
• Vita similis umbræ.

  Transience

• Tempus edax rerum.
• Tempus vincit omnia.
• Vidi nihil permanere sub sole.

  Virtue

• Dum tempus habemus operemur bonum.
• Omnes æquales sola virtute discrepantes.

  Living

• Amicis qualibet hora.
• Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ .
• Fruere hora.
• Post tenebras spero lucem.
• Semper amicis hora.
• Sit fausta quæ labitur.
• Sol omnibus lucet.
• Tempus omnia dabit.
• Una dabit quod negat altera.
• Vita in motu.
• Vivere memento.

  Humorous

• Horas non numero nisi æstivas
• Horas non numero nisi serenas
• Nunc est bibendum
• Si sol deficit, respicit me nemo.
• Sine sole sileo.

  German mottos

• Mach' es wie die Sonnenuhr; Zähl' die heitren Stunden nur!

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