Great Summer Quotes

The summer is upon us and our thoughts turn to walks in the sun, enjoying outdoor activities, visits to the beach, getting in shape for that bikini or swimsuit and all that the summer season might offer. Summer also offers us a large collection of inspirational to funny summer quotes. It is fun to read through the list of interesting summer quotes and discover what others wish to share about the summer season with the world. Read through the quotes and share them with friends and family this summer or throughout the year. A great idea some try is placing their favorite quote on a t-shirt, or simply writing it in their journal.

Summer Quotes

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon, to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." Henry James

"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."
Nora Ephron

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."
Erma Bombeck

"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable: with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats."
Woody Allen

"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do."
Walter Winchell

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
Sam Keen

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
Russel Baker

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"?
William Shakespeare

"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."
Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul."
Billy Graham

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
Langston Hughes

"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York."
William Shakespeare

"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 Huxtable

"A life without love is like a year without summer."
Swedish Proverb

"In summer, the song sings itself."
William Carlos Williams