# List of sundial mottos

Many sundials bear a motto to reflect the sentiments of its maker or owner.

## 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.
* The clouds shall pass and the sun will shine on us once more.
* 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
* Time Takes All But Memories
* Some tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny hours.
* Order in the court!
* Like true firemen, I am always ready.

## Latin mottos
### Time flies

* Hora fugit, ne tardes. (The hour flees, do not be late.)
* Ruit hora. (The hour is flowing away.)
* Tempus breve est. (Time is short.)
* Tempus fugit [velut umbra]. (Time flees [like a shadow].)
* Tempus volat, hora fugit. (Time flies, the hour flees.)

### Make use of time

* Altera pars otio, pars ista labori. (Devote this [hour] to work, another to leisure.)
* Festina lente. (Make haste, but slowly.)
* [Fugit hora] – carpe diem. ([The hour flees] – seize the day.)
* Utere, non numera. (Use [the hours], do not count [them].)
* Utere non reditura. (Use that [hour] which will not return.)

### Human mortality

* Ex iis unam cave. (Beware of one [hour] out of these.)
* Lente hora, celeriter anni. (An hour [passes] slowly, but the years [pass] quickly.)
* Meam vide umbram, tuam videbis vitam. (Look at my shadow and you will see your life.)
* Memor esto brevis ævi. (Be mindful of brief life.)
* Mox nox. (Soon [it is] night.)
* Tuam nescis (You don't know your [time].)
* [Nobis] pereunt et imputantur. ([The hours] are consumed and will be charged [to our account].)
* Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat. (All [hours] wound; the last kills.)
* [Pulvis et] umbra sumus. (We are [dust and] shadow.)
* Serius est quam cogitas. (It is later than you think.)
* Sic labitur ætas. (Thus passes a lifetime.)
* Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur. (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.)
* Ultima latet ut observentur omnes. (The last [hour] is hidden so that we watch them all.)
* Umbra sicut hominis vita. (A person's life is like a shadow.)
* Una ex his erit tibi ultima. (One of these [hours] will be your last.)
* Ver non semper viret. (Spring is not always in bloom.)
* Vita fugit, sicut umbra (Life passes like the shadow.)
* Vita similis umbræ. (Life resembles a shadow.)

### Transience

* Tempus edax rerum. (Time devours things.)
* Tempus vincit omnia. (Time conquers everything.)
* Vidi nihil permanere sub sole. (I have seen that nothing under the sun endures.)

### Virtue

* Dum tempus habemus operemur bonum. (While we have time, let us do good.)
* Omnes æquales sola virtute discrepantes. (All [hours] are the same; they are distinguished only by virtue.)

### Living

* Amicis qualibet hora. (Any hour for my friends.)
* Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ [ac linque severe]. (Take the gifts of this hour joyfully [and leave them sternly].)
* Fruere hora. (Enjoy the hour.)
* Post tenebras spero lucem. (I hope for light to follow darkness.)
* Semper amicis hora. (Always time for friends.)
* Sit fausta quæ labitur. (May that which passes be favorable.)
* Sol omnibus lucet. (The sun shines for all.)
* Tempus omnia dabit. (Time will give all.)
* Una dabit quod negat altera. (One [hour] will give what another has refused.)
* Vita in motu. (Life [is] in motion.)
* Vivere memento. (Remember to live.)

### Humorous

* Horas non numero nisi æstivas. (I do not count the hours unless they are in summer.)
* Horas non numero nisi serenas. (I do not count the hours unless they are sunny.)
* Nunc est bibendum. (Now is the time to drink.)
* Si sol deficit, respicit me nemo. (If the sun is gone, nobody will look 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!)