Sundials Quotes

• No ocultes tus talentos. Se hicieron para usarlos. ¿Qué es un reloj de sol a la sombra?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspiración, Vida, Fuerza

  Benjamin Franklin Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). "Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin", p.142, Yale University Press

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• El tiempo es demasiado lento para los que esperan, demasiado rápido para los que temen, demasiado largo para los que lloran, demasiado corto para los que se alegran, pero para los que aman, el tiempo es eternidad.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Amor, Vida, Romántico

  Henry Van Dyke, "El tiempo es"

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• Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

  William Hazlitt

  Time, Sunny, Hours

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• I am a sundial, and I make a botch
  Of what is done much better by a watch.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Funny, Time, Watches

  'On a Sundial' (1938)

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• Un reloj parado acierta dos veces al día, pero un reloj de sol puede utilizarse para apuñalar a alguien, incluso de noche.

  John Hodgman

  Clock, Used, Nighttime

  John Hodgman (2012). "Más información de la que necesita", p.268, Penguin.

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• An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Feet, Jade

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• Hours fly,
  Flowers die:
  New days,
  New ways:
  Pass by!
  Love stays.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Flower, New Day

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). "Las obras de Henry Van Dyke"

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• Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Flower, Grace

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• El tiempo es: Demasiado lento para los que esperan, demasiado rápido para los que temen.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Día de San Valentín, Significado, Amor Famoso

  Henry Van Dyke (1904). "Música y otros poemas"

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• Todos tenemos tanto miedo, todos estamos tan solos, todos necesitamos tanto del exterior la seguridad de nuestra propia valía para existir. Así que, durante un tiempo, si esa pasión fructifica, el hombre conseguirá lo que quiere. Obtendrá el apoyo moral, el aliento, el alivio de la sensación de soledad, la seguridad de su propia valía. Pero estas cosas pasan; inevitablemente pasan como pasan las sombras a través de los relojes de sol. Es triste, pero es así. Las páginas del libro se volverán familiares; la hermosa esquina del camino habrá sido doblada demasiadas veces. Esta es la historia más triste.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Beautiful, Encouragement, Loneliness

  Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.125, Broadview Press

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• As long as there's a place for sundials and gardening and beautiful things, there's a place for the harpsichord. I completely reject the idea that harpsichord is old. And I reject the idea that something old is therefore not good or not popular. Lots of things are old. Lots of traditions are old - cooking, art. I like it because it's beautiful.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Beautiful, Art, Ideas

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Business, Communication

  Charles Lamb (1943). “A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia”

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• The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Godly, Christian Inspirational, Spirit

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• I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

  Bernard Levin

  Weather, Childhood, Remember

  Bernard Levin (1984). “Enthusiasms”, Random House Value Publishing

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• If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Sunshine, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

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• Carpe diem. (Aprovecha el día).

  Horace

  Cine, Sabio, Latino

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). "The Odes of Horace", p.27, JHU Press

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• Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetiness into the heavenly wine.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Wine, Wind

  Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (1993). “Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Como el reloj de sol, mi caja de pinturas no cuenta más horas que las soleadas.

  Arthur Rackham

  Sunny, Hours, Paint

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• With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
  From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
  Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
  There's light above me by the shade I throw.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Night, Light

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• She was so ugly that her face could stop a sundial.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Ugly, Faces

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• I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Couple, Thinking, Years

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• Todos tenemos tanto miedo, todos estamos tan solos, todos necesitamos tanto del exterior la seguridad de nuestra propia valía para existir.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Fear, Needs, Moral Support

  Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.125, Broadview Press

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