List of sundial 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 • , Minnesota, USA.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 volat, hora fugit. (Time flies, the hour flees.) • [Pulvis et] umbra sumus. (We are [dust and] shadow.) • Serius est quam cogitas. (It is later than you think.) Virtue • Dum tempus habemus operemur bonum. (While we have time, let us do good.) • Fruere hora. (Enjoy the hour.) • 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!) ==References==