Famous quotes containing the words sundial and/or mottoes:
“Old Day the gardener seemed
Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand
by the sundial and freshly-dug
grave in my book of parables.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“find out who it is that writes those lovely cracker mottoes!’
‘Tell me, Henry Wadsworth, Alfred, Poet Close, or Mister Tupper,
Do you write the bonbon mottoes my Elvira pulls at supper?’”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)