<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Sun dial mottoes - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     Love stays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58323]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.   - Henry Jackson van Dyke,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am moved by the light. [Lat., A lumine motus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am moved by the light. [Lat., A lumine motus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;  Mortals, howe'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;  Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore,   The flying shadow will return no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58311]]></link><description><![CDATA[True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58312]]></link><description><![CDATA[True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark  A sun dial quaint and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58313]]></link><description><![CDATA["Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark  A sun dial quaint and gray.   It takes no heed of the hours which in dark    Pass o'er it day by day.     It has stood for ages amid the flowers      In that land of sky and song.       "I number none but the cloudless hours,"        Its motto the live day long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mark my hours by shadow; Mayest thou mark thine  By sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mark my hours by shadow; Mayest thou mark thine  By sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas   Aux cadrans de ce monde.]   - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day, do the day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58306]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day, do the day's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live ye, he says, I flee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live ye, he says, I flee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, when our sun is set,   Which will through Christ a resurrection get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58302]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begone about your business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begone about your business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss   Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2531</guid></item></channel></rss>