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“The life of man is a bubble.”
Sundial motto from the Book of Sun-dials by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (1809-1873). Enlarged and re-edited in 1900.
Timothy W. Fitzgerald (1955-), Celestial Quest, 1992, 411 South East Riverside Drive, Kuehn Terrace, Evansville, Indiana, via Smithsonian Institution
“The gliding hour flies on fitful wings.”
Sundial motto given on an engraving in “Fabrica degli Horologi Solari,” by Valentino Pini, 1598. From the Book of Sun-dials by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (1809-1873). Enlarged and re-edited in 1900.
“We are travelling each towards his sunset.”
Sundial motto recorded in “Bulletin Monumental de la Société Française d’Archéologie,” 1881. No locality given.
“On this moment hangs eternity.”
This sundial motto appears in many places including the porch of St. Andrew’s Church, Auckland, County Durham, with the date 1749. From the Book of Sun-dials by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (1809-1873). Enlarged and re-edited in 1900.
Kazuo Matsubiyashi, Asteroid Landed Softly sundial, 1920, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City, Utah, via Smithsonian Institution
“The night cometh when no man can work.”
“Amende to-day and slack not,
Deyth cometh and warneth not,
Tyme passeth and speketh not.”
“As the long hours do pass away,
So doth the life of man decay.”
Roy E. King (1903-1986), The Tiffany Bench Sundial, 1931, of the Katrina Ely Tiffany Memorial Garden, Bryn Mawr, PA, via Smithsonian Institution
“A span is all that we can boast, an inch or so of time: man is but vanity and dust in all his flower and prime.”
“He knows but from its shade the present hour.”
Nancy Swanson, Helfinstine Garden sundial, 1944, Helfinstine Garden, Phoenix, AZ, via Smithsonian Institution
“Carve out dials, quaintly, point by point
Thereby to set the minutes, how they run
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.”
“Hours fly,
Flowers die,
New days,
New ways,
Pass by.
Love stays.”
