Some favorites I have used on dials are: The afore mentioned, "Time is what keeps everything from happening at once". "The shadow of my finger cast divides the future from the past; Before it stands the unborn hour in darkness and beyond thy power; Behind its unreturning line the vanished hour no longer thine; One hour alone is in thy hand, the now on which the shadow stands".
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of". Benjamin Franklin, 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746 Gino SchiavoneThe Schiavone Studio1337 Gusdorf Road, Ste JTaos, NM 87571 From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: Some quotable quotes on sundials Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:45:59 -0800 Ye who make rhymes of sundials stand in good company! A good source of sundial sayings and mottoes is: The Book of Sun-dials by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1872. It includes chapters of mottoes, translations from Latin and related stories. One of my favorites: Make time, save time while time lasts, All time is no time, when time is past and: You must account at last for all your moments past And what I tell my daughter: Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Sasch Stephens Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:36:08 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Some quotable quotes on sundials To: [email protected] To better understand the pros on this list, and another problem that I am working on, I recently purchased a book: SUNDIALS - Their Theory And Construction by Albert E. Waugh. It made an interesting read, and I would like to share some of that - hope you will enjoy it too: O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To Carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see 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. Shakespeare King Henry VI, Part III, 2, v. It was four o'clock according to my guess, Since eleven feet, a little more or less, My shadow at the time did fall, Considering that I myself am six feet tall. Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Parson's Prolog) ...the shadow of each tree Had reached a length of that same quantity As was the body which had cast the shade; And on this basis he conclusion made: ...for that day, and that latitude, the time was ten o'clock Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Man of Law's Tale) --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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