Summer Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old summer quotes, summer sayings, and summer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun. Brian Wilson
Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends. Darell Hammond
I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there. Jack McBrayer
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. George R.R. Martin
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. Jeannette Walls
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet. Bob Marley
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russel Baker
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. James Dent
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. Bill Watterson
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. James Dent
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter. Patricia Briggs
Summertime is always the best of what might be. Charles Bowden
If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper Evelyn Waugh
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. Wallace Stevens
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. Hal Borland
It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. Walter Winchell
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. Calvin
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair. Susan Polis Schutz
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. Francis Thompson
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. Gertrude Jekyll
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck
Summer is the topsy-turvy season when the goldfish have to be boarded out while the family goes on a fishing trip. Author Unknown
Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall. Author Unknown
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. Ada Louise
How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride. William Blake