Sundial Motto Engraving Suggestions
Some of these mottoes may be too long for horizontal or vertical sundials but I am happy to advise
Love is tender, love is kind
The greatest happiness in life is to love and to be loved - Victor Hugo
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved - George Sand
All you need is love
A marriage of true minds
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in a hour - William Blake
I therefore proclaim that they are husband and wife
'Twere all one that I should love a bright particular star and think to wed it. (All's well that ends well)
Wild thing… you make my heart sing… you make everything… groovy - Jimi Hendrix
O, my love's like a red red rose that's newly sprung in June - Robert Burns
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight? - Christopher Marlow
Come live with me and be my love - Christopher Marlow
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods (Japanese proverb)
Sunshine passes, shadows fall, love and memories outlast all
Nothing can break the circle of our love
Only count the sunny hours
Love all alike no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
Laughter is sunshine in a house
The sun sets to rise again. (The Song of Solomon)
The day breaks and the shadows flee. (The Song of Solomon)
Time brings all things
Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.
Sunshine, love and happiness be yours forever.
Love begins in a moment, grows over time and lasts for eternity
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana - Groucho Marks
The shadow by my finger cast, divides the future from the past
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full dazzling!
Serene I stand among the flowers, And only count life's sunny hours.
Love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage
Because my love is come to me
To me dark days do not exist, I'm a brazen faced old optimist
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today
It is later than you think.
L'heure passe, l 'amitié reste. (The hours pass, friendship remains)
Time wastes us, our bodies and our wits; we waste time: so time and we are quits.
Light and shadow by turns, but love always.
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
the song of the birds for mirth,
one is nearer God's heart in a garden,
than anywhere else on earth. - Dorothy Gurney
I am a sundial, and I make a botch
Of what is done far better by a watch - Hilaire Belloc
(of course I don't agree with this one, but it's very neat)
I stand amid the summer flowers
To tell the passage of the hours.
When winter steals the flowers away
I tell the passing of their day.
Man whose flesh is but as grass
Like summer flowers thy life shall pass
While time is thine lay up in store
And thou shalt live for evermore.
Time is too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice.
But for those who love, time is not.
With warning hand I mark time's rapid flight,
From life's glad morning to its solemn night.
Yet through the dear God's love, I also show,
There's light above me by the shade below.
The clock the time may wrongly tell,
I never if the sun shines well.
In memory, love lives forever.
We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts not breaths
in feelings, not in figures on a dial.
Men die, cattle die, only the tales of heroes last forever. (Norse saying)
Dance as though no one is watching you,
Love as though you have never been hurt before,
Sing as though no one can hear you,
Live as though heaven is on earth.
No minute gone comes ever back again, take heed and see ye nothing do in vain.
Love is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. (Macbeth)
Make the passing shadow serve thy will.
The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past.
Behind its unreturning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine.
Before it lies the unknown hour
In darkness and beyond thine power.
One hour alone is in thine hands,
The NOW on which the shadow stands.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why does thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
…and a few Latin ones
Tempus fugit (Time flies)
Fruere hora (Guard the hour)
Tempus omnia revelat (Time reveals all things)
Amor vincit omnia (Love conquers all)
Sol regit omnia (The sun rules all)
Lux umbra Dei. (Light is the shadow of God)
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus (Don't tickle a sleeping dragon)
Sine sole sileo (Without the sun I am silent)
Vigilante et orate tempus fugit (Watch and pray, time steals away)