—  Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer

—  Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist

—  Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

—  Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher

—  Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher

—  Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer

—  Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer

—  William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

—  Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist

—  Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet

—  Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright

—  Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer

—  Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer

—  Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer

—  Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister

—  Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

—  Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher

—  Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ As You Like It

—  Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734,  English physician and adage collector

—  Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher

—  William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter

—  Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer

—  Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker

—  Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher

—  Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer

—  George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925

—  Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734,  English physician and adage collector

—  Northcote Parkinson, 1909-1993, British historian

—  John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963]

—  Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor

—  Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer

—  Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru

—  T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948

—  Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer

—  François Rabelais, 1484-1553, French writer

—  François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician

—  John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach

—  Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker

—  Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer

—  Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman

—  H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer

—  Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer

—  Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600, Italian monk & philosopher

—  Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher

—  Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher

—  Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer

—  Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Greek poet, Nobel 1979

—  Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims

—  Bruce Lee, 1940-1973, Chinese-American actor

—  John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962

—  John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962

—  Bouddha, 563-483 BC, Indian founder of Buddhism

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

—  Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer

—  Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer

—  Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer

—  William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter

     (his last words)

—  Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer

—  Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter

—  Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer

—  James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

—  Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer

—  Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress

—  François Rabelais, 1484-1553, French writer

—  Marguerite Yourcenar, 1903-1987, French writer

—  Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist

—  Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher

—  Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

Utere, non numera.

—  Medieval Sundial Motto

Ars longa, vita brevis.

—  Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine”

Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat.

—  Medieval Sundial motto

Tempus edax rerum.

—  Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet

Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas.

—  Medieval Sundial Motto

Fugit inreparabile tempus.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

Serius est quam cogitas.

—  Sundial motto

—  Constantine Kavafy, 1868-1933, Greek poet ‐ Since Nine O’Clock

—  Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet

—  Anonymous

—  Groucho Marx, 1890-1977, American comedian

—  Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian

Ο βίος βραχύς, η δε τέχνη μακρή, ο δε καιρός οξύς, η δε πείρα σφαλερή, η δε κρίσις χαλεπή.

—  Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine”

     (the first phrase in the “Aphorisms”)

Μη πίστευε χρόνω.

—  Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth

Πάντων των αναγκαίων κακών ιατρός χρόνος εστίν.

—  Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy)

Χρόνος εστίν εν ώ καιρός, και καιρός εν ώ χρόνος ου πολύς.

—  Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine”

Ο χρόνος άπαντα τοίσιν ύστερον φράσει. Λάλος γαρ ούτος ουκ ερωτώσιν λέγει.

—  Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Aeolus

Σοφώτατον χρόνος· ανευρίσκει γαρ πάντα.

—  Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Πάντα εκκαλύπτων ο χρόνος εις το φως άγει.

—  Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet

Άγει δε προς φως την αλήθειαν χρόνος.

—  Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy)

Εκδιδάσκει πάνθ’ ο γηράσκων χρόνος.

—  Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Prometheus Bound

Χρόνος παις εστι παίζων πεττεύων. Παιδός η βασιλεία.

—  Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Χρόνου φείδου.

—  Chilon of Sparta, 6th cent. BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece

Σοφόν λέγουσι τον χρόνον πεφυκέναι.

—  Agathon, 450-400 BC, Ancient Greek tragic poet

Νόημα ή μέτρον τον χρόνον, ουχ υπόστασιν.

—  Antiphon of Rhamnus, 470-410 BC, Ancient Athenian statesman

Χρόνος ο πάντων πρόγονος.

—  Pindar, 522-438 BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet

Χρόνος καθαίρει πάντα γηράσκων ομού.

—  Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Eumenides

—  Slogan of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2014)

—  Sundial motto

—  Sundial motto (Kintbury, Berkshire)