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51 Summer Quotes That Capture the Joy of Beach Season
Updated on Jan. 26, 2025
Funny summer quotes
1. “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” —Russell Baker
2. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.” —Unknown
4. “Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.” —Aimee Friedman
5. “Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes ….” —Ada Louise
6. “I’m sorry for the things I said when it was winter.” —Unknown
7. “When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.” —Taylor Swift
9. “Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.” —Kellie Elmore
10. “Summer—the time when parents realize how underpaid teachers actually are.” —Unknown
Cute summer quotes
11. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” —John Steinbeck
12. “Summertime, and the living is easy.” —George Gershwin
13. “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
14. “I live for summer.” —Sandra Boynton
15. “Summer is a verb.” —Lisa Birnbach
16. “It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine—it’s summertime!” —Kenny Chesney
17. “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “In summer, the song sings itself.” —William Carlos Williams
19. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” —Jeanette Walls
20. “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” —Van Morrison
21. “The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn; the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.” —James Russel Lowell
22. “My sense of direction leads me one way: to the beach.” —Anonymous
23. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” —Benjamin Alire Sáenz
24. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” —Maud Hart Lovelace
25. “Then followed that beautiful season … summer. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay, as if new-created in all the freshness of childhood.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
26. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” —Henry James
27. “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
28. “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” —Roman Payne
Summer love quotes
29. “She was sippin’ on Southern and singing Marshall Tucker. We were fallin’ in love in the sweet heart of summer.” —Florida Georgia Line
30. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” —William Shakespeare
31. “Being in love is like a roller coaster and a stroll on the beach rolled into one.” —Unknown
32. “Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” —Nora Ephron
33. “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay
34. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” —Patricia Briggs
35. “She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.” —Katie Daisy
36. “Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars—a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they’re gone.” —Nicholas Sparks
37. “A life without love is like a year without summer.” —Swedish proverb
38. “Friends, sun, sand and sea—that sounds like a summer to me.” —Unknown
39. “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
40. “Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” —Brian Wilson
41. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” —Jenny Han
42. “‘Cause a little bit of summer’s what the whole year’s all about.” —John Mayer
43. “Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia—the place where all our dreams come true.” —Roxane Gay
44. “One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
End-of-summer quotes
45. “There’s no place like home. Except for the beach.” —Anonymous
46. “This is June, the month of grass and leaves …. Already the aspens are trembling again, and a new summer is offered me.” —Henry David Thoreau
47. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” —John Steinbeck, writer
48. “If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” —Sarah Dessen
49. “The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.” —Unknown
50. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” —Lucy Maud Montgomery
51. “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
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At Reader’s Digest, we’ve been sharing our favorite quotes for over 100 years. The sayings and quips that appear in the magazine’s “Quotable Quotes” (formerly “Remarkable Remarks”) are curated from interviews and essays originally published in the magazine, reprints from trusted titles and other verified sources. For this piece on kindness quotes, Meghan Jones tapped her experience as a lifestyle editor for Reader’s Digest to ensure that all information is accurate. We’ve gone the extra step and had Ambrose Martose, a fact-checker with 20-plus years of experience researching for national publications including National Geographic Adventure and Popular Mechanics, verify that all quotes are attributed correctly and have credible sourcing. Read more about our team, our contributors and our editorial policies.
