Dedications & Mottos

Some further suggested dedications for your personalised sundial are listed here.

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Thank you for filling my life with joy & for loving me

You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails

YOU ARE NOT A MOMENT IN TIME, YOU ARE MY LIFE LASSOURREUILLE.
Let us grow old together, the best is yet to come
Time we shared was cut short, but our memories will last for ever Always in our thoughts. Love and missed by all of us
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
The sun whose rays are all ablaze with ever-living glory
"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment" Jane Austen

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. Ecclestastes 3:1

Time is an image of Eternity flowing according to number

INGRAVANTIBUS ANNIS: Our years multiply
LABOR IPSE VOLUPTAS: Even toil itself is pleasant
IT IS LATER THAN YOU THINK
LEX DEI LUX DIEI: God's Law may be read in the light of the Sun
LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE THAT MENM MAY SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS
READ ON THIS DIAL HOW THE SHADOWS DEVOUR MY SHORT-LIVED WINTER'S DAY HOUR EATS UP HOUR ALAS THE TOTAL'S BUT FROM EIGHT TO FOUR
MAKE THE PASSING SHADOW SERVE THY WILL
LUCE LABORANDUM: Work for the Night cometh
THOU BY THE DIAL'S SHADY STEALTH MAYST KNOW TIME'S THIEVISH PROGRESS TO ETERNITY: Shakespeare
I NOTE THE TIME THAT YOU WASTE
LUX UMBRA DEI: Light is the shadow of God
LOOK FORWARD
NOW IS YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW
WITH WARNING HAND I MARK TIME'S RAPID FLIGHT FROM LIFE'S GLAD MORNING TO IT'S SOLEMN NIGHT
YET THROUGH THE DEAR GOD'S LOVE I ALSO SHOW THERE'S A LIGHT ABOVE ME BY THE SHADE BELOW
USE WELL THE PRESENT MOMENTS AS THEY FLEET YOUR LIFE HOWEVER
WATCH FASTER WATCH SLOWER
BEING YOUR SLAVE, WHAT SHALL I DO BUT TEND UPON THE HOURS AND TIMES OF YOUR DESIRE?: Shakespeare
VOLANO L'ORE I GIORNI GL'ANNI E I MESIHours, days, months, years, all fly: (Petrarch)
GATHER YE ROSE-BUDS WHILE YE MAY OLD TIME IS STILL A-FLYING AND THIS SAME FLOWER THAT SMILES TO-DAY TO-MORROW WILL BE DYING
WATCH FOR YE KNOW NOT THE HOUR
THIS PLAINLY SHOWS TO FOOLISH MAN THAT HIS WHOLE LIFE IS BUT A SPAN
WORK TODAY AND PLAY TOMORROW
SET ME RIGHT AND USE ME WELL AND I THE TIME TO YOU WILL TELL
AS WE USE THE HOURS SO WILL THE HOURS USE US
THE MOVING FINGER WRITES AND HAVING WRIT MOVES ON NOR ALL THY PIETY NOR WIT SHALL LURE IT BACK TO CANCEL HALF A LINE NOR ALL THY TEARS WASH OUT A WORD OF IT: (Omar Khayyam)
THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME BRINGS IN HIS REVENGES: Shakespeare
VIGILATE: Be vigilant
VIGILATE ET ORATE TEMPUS FUGIT: Watch and pray, Time steals away
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
VERITAS TEMPORIS FILLA: Truth is the daughter of Time
UMBRA DEI: The Shadow of God
IN SPACE COMES GRACE
LEAD KINDLY LIGHT
A DAY TO COME SHOWS LONGER THAN A YEAR THAT'S GONE
TIME'S ON THE WING
TIME IS PRECIOUS
HOURS FLY FLOWERS DIE NEW DAYSNEW WAYS PASS BY LOVE STAYS
REMEMBER ALL YE WHO PASS ALL THINGSPASS AS I PASS
THE TIME THOU KILLEST WILL IN TIME KILL THEE
TANQUAM FUMUS: Life vanishes like smoke
LIFE IS A PASSING SHADOW THE SHADOW OF A BIRD IN HIS FLIGHT: (From the Talmud)
THE TIME TO COME IS NO MORE OURS THAN THE PAST
TEMPUS RERUM IMPERATOR: Time commands all things
TEMPUS AD LUCEM DUCIT VERITATEM: Time brings Truth to light
TEMPUS OBIT MORS VENIT: Time dies, Death reigns
TEMPUS VITAE MONITOR: Time is the monitor of life
TIME WASTED IS EXISTENCEUSED IS LIFE
HOC TUUM EST: The present only is thine own
I BIDE MY TIMEI STAY FOR NO MAN
HEU QUAERIMUS UMBRAM: We pursue a shadow
TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND, AND A HEAVEN IN A WILD FLOWER, HOLD INFINITY OF THE PALM OF YOUR HAND AND ETERNITY IN AN HOUR
I do not pretend to understand the universe - it is a great deal bigger than I am
SWIFT FLY THE HOURS AND BRIEF THE TIME
Life can only be understood backwards It must be lived forwards.
Love is immortal death is only a horizon A horizon is the limit of our eyes.
For every hour which passes Remembrance For every hour that strikes Happiness For every hour that comes Hope
To cultivate a garden is to Walk with God.
All the flowers of all the tomorrows Are in the seeds of today.

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