"MORE damn Latin." Topic

O.K. My Wife has asked me, and in turn you all, a favour.

Does any one know the meaning of these two sentences?

(The meaning of the whole sentence, not the individual words.);

Nihil dulcius bene impensi temporis memoria.

AND

aliis inserviendo consumor.

Thanks for any help.

She owes me…

No idea about the first one, the second is:

In serving others I devour myself

or:

Im Dienste für andere verzehre ich mich.

I think (it's been a while since school!) that literally the first is something like:

"Nothing is better/sweeter than the memory of time well spent"

However, if I'm not completely off the mark, I think it would be more likely to be said as:

"Nothing is sweeter than the memory of good/happy times"

Treat this with a degree of caution; as I said, it's been a while since I used my Latin much and I'm pretty rusty!

Thanks. That should keep her happy for a while.

"aliis inserviendo consumor" I think is more like:

"In the service of others I am consumed."

Than Gungnir's "In serving others I devour myself". But I could be wrong…

Killer Bob, if I'm wrong, then so in commission, I got it from a hefty tome of Latin sayings on coins: Auflösungen lateinischer Legenden auf Münzen und Medaillen, by Wenzel.

Googling "aliis inserviendo consumor" mainly gives:

"consumed in the service of others."

as the definition, which is, more or less, what I said. But this seems to be because of one organisation:

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So it isn't definitive. And I'm sure it doesn't really matter.