page_title: Tempus fugit
section_title: Usage
hierarchical_section_title: Tempus fugit / Usage
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Redu (Belgique) - Cadran solaire. English: Redu (Belgium) - Sundial. Nederlands: Redu (België) - Zonnewijzer. Walon: Ridu (Bèljike) - Cwadran solêre.
context_page_description: Tempus fugit is a Latin phrase, usually translated into English as "time flies". The expression comes from line 284 of book 3 of Virgil's Georgics, where it appears as fugit inreparabile tempus: "it escapes, irretrievable time". The phrase is used in both its Latin and English forms as a proverb that "time's a-wasting".
context_section_description: Tempus fugit is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. carpe diem) rather than a motto in favor of licentiousness (cf. "gather ye rosebuds while ye may"); the English form is often merely descriptive: "time flies like the wind", "time flies when you're having fun".
  The phrase is a common motto, particularly on sundials and clocks.  It also has been used on gravestones.
  Some writers have attempted rebuttals: 
  Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.  by H(enry) Austin Dobson 1840-1921.
  'Hêd Amser! / Meddi Na! / Erys Amser / Dyn Â' on sundial at Univ of Bangor, North Wales. says the sundial was commissioned by Sir William Henry Preece, and offers an English equivalent: 
  Time flies, thou sayest - Nay!  Man flies; Time still doth stay. 
  Another English version is: Time Flies, Say Not So: Time Remains,'Tis Man Must Go.
caption: An example of the phrase as a sundial motto in Redu, Belgium.
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image PageName": "3?633383241744687500?3061897?0?1?0?C:\\Documents and Settings\\Propri?taire\\Mes documents\\Mes images\\Tourinnes-la-Grosse 1.jpg", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image DateTime": "2007:06:03 19:10:52", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ReferenceBlackWhite": "[0, 255, 128, 255, 128, 255]", "Image ExifOffset": "386", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/80", "EXIF FNumber": "63/10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "11408", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "11728", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2007:06:03 19:10:52", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2007:06:03 19:10:52", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "207157/32768", "EXIF ApertureValue": "174021/32768", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "11152", "EXIF Flash": "11392", "EXIF FocalLength": "30", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1414", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1885", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "832000/291", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "1248000/437", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "59080", "EXIF CustomRendered": "8768", "EXIF ExposureMode": "9200", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "9776", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "10176"}