111 Quotes about Summer & Sayings to Spark Summer Wanderlust

Funny Quotes about Summer

  • “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” ―Sam Keen
  • “Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” ―Kellie Elmore
  • “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” ―Dodie Smith
  • “Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double and act single.” ―Unknown
  • “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” ―Russell Baker
  • “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” ―Patricia Briggs
  • “Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ―Nora Ephron
  • “It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” ―Walter Winchell
  • “Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ―Nora Ephron
  • “A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” ―Raymond Duncan
  • “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.” ―James Dent
  • “Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.” ―Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • “I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.” ―Brendan Behan
  • “Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fiber of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.” ―Tom Hodgkinson

Inspirational Quotes about Summer

  • “Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” ―Melissa Marr
  • “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” ―Albert Camus
  • “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” ―L. M. Montgomery
  • “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” ―Wilma Rudolph
  • “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” ―John Burroughs
  • “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” ―Charles Dickens
  • “While we’re young and beautiful, living free and easy. Here without a worry, dancing in our bare feet because when the summer’s done we might not be so young and beautiful.”
  • “In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” ―Sarah Dessen
  • “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
  • “Ah, 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.” ―Darrell Hammond
  • “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ―John Lubbock
  • “Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”―Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Short Summer Quotes and Sayings

  • “Sunshine on my mind.”
  • “Happiness is cold watermelon.”
  • “Ocean air salty hair.”
  • “Watch more sunsets than Netflix.”
  • “It’s always summer somewhere.” ―Lilly Pulitzer
  • “I was made for sunny days.”
  • “Summer is a state of mind.”
  • “My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.” ―Terri Guillemets
  • “It’s summer and time for wandering…” ―Kellie Elmore
  • “In summer, the song sings itself.” ―William Carlos Williams
  • “There is always that one summer that changes you.”
  • “Salt in the air, sand in my hair.” ―Unknown
  • “Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hot Summer Day!” ―Unknown
  • “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” ―Porgy and Bess
  • “She had that whiskey sipping skinny dipping smile.” ―Atticus
  • “If it requires a bikini, my answer is yes.”
  • “The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.”
  • “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ―William Shakespeare
  • “A summer I’ll always remember with people I’ll never forget.”
  • “Be Sure Not To Fizzle When The Summer Starts To Sizzle.”
  • “There is no ‘we’ in summer. Only ‘u’ and ‘me’.” ―Unknown
  • “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine…it’s summertime!” ―Kenny Chesney
  • “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” ―Van Morrison

Cute Quotes about Summer

  • “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” ―Unknown
  • “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer.” ―Nat King Cole
  • “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ―Charles Bowden
  • “You are so much sunshine in every square inch.” ―Walt Whitman
  • “Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.” ―Unknown
  • “I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” Susan Branch
  • “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…” ―Susan Polis Schutz
  • “Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.” ―Bob Marley
  • “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!” ―Kenny Chesney
  • “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
  • “Summer afternoonsummer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ―Henry James
  • “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” ―Brian Wilson
  • “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” ―Shanti
  • “Summer afternoonsummer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ―Henry James Getemoji
  • “I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.” ―Terri Guillemets
  • “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” ―Regina Brett

Good Quotes About Summer Love

  • “A life without love is like a year without summer.”
  • “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” ―Jenny Han
  • “Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” ―Hosea Ballou
  • “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” ―Kellie Elmore
  • “Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” ―C. Day Lewis
  • “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” ―Langston Hughes
  • “I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach.” ―Michael Faudet
  • “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” ―K.D. Lang
  • “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” ―Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” ―Maud Hart Lovelace
  • “In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.” ―Steven Millhauser
  • “Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.” ―Diane Ackerman

Quotes About Summer Vacation

  • “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” ―Unknown
  • “When all else fails, take a vacation.” ―Betty Williams
  • “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” ―Robert Orben
  • “When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” ―Aimee Friedman

End of Summer Quotes

  • “The end-of-summer winds make people restless.” ―Sebastian Faulks
  • “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ―William Shakespeare
  • “Summer will end soon enough, childhood as well.” ―George R.R. Martin
  • “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” ―George R.R. Martin
  • “It is easy to forget how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.” ―Anna Godbersen
  • “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ―John Steinbeck
  • “Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.” ―Darnell Lamont Walker
  • “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ―Sylvia Plath
  • “If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” ―Sarah Dessen
  • “There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?” – Joe Wheeler
  • “The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.” ―E.B. White

Quotes about Summer Nights

  • “Ain’t nothin like them summer nights.” ―Lil Rob
  • “Celebrate summer–sun-drenched days and starlit nights.” ―Gooseberry Patch
  • “Holler if you’re ready for some summer nights.” ―Rascal Flatts
  • “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” ―Wallace Stevens
  • “Sound loves to revel in a summer night.” ―Edgar Allan Poe
  • “Summer night– even the stars are whispering to each other.” ―Kobayashi Issa
  • “If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.” ―Bern Williams
  • “The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.” ―Vladimir Nabokov
  • “Oh, the summer night has a smile of light and she sits on a sapphire throne.”
  • “The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.” ―Leonard Cohen
  • “It is as if everything else in the world stops as we lie here in the summer night.” ―Huntley Fitzpatrick
  • “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ―Lil Rob
  • “The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus, and the bass solo of the croaking Frog – a summer night’s serenade.” ―Michael P. Garofalo
  • “The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.”
  • “On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it’s differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.” ―Michael Cunningham