Summer is a special time.
Camp. Iced tea. Fireflies. Love… Everything is just a little bit better during this season.
We’ve gone ahead and collected the best quotes about the dog days that we could get our hands on. Enjoy and don’t forget to wear sunscreen!
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.-Henry James
“We laugh until we think we’ll die, barefoot on a summer night.-Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Home
“Summer: Hair gets lighter. Skin gets darker. Water gets warmer. Drinks get colder. Music gets louder. Nights get longer. Life gets better.-Unknown
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.-John Lubbock
“Summer (n.) The season when you never know what day it is.-Unknown
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe…-Evelyn Waugh
“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, The Notebook
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.-Charles Bowden
“There is always that one summer that changes you.-Unknown
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.-Wallace Stevens
“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
“Every summer has a story.-Unknown
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.-Sam Keen
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.-Jeannette Walls
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.-William Shakespeare
“‘Summer-induced stupidity.’ That was the diagnosis…-Aimee Friedman
“I’m still waiting for that one summer night. The kind that awakens the soul, that changes the game. The one that paints new worlds and consumes your old life.-Anita Krizzan
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.-Edna St. Vincent Millay
“It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.-John Cheever
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.-L.M. Mongomery
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.-Henry David Thoreau
“Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living.-Melissa Marr
“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.-Deb Caletti
“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
“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
“Just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love.-Unknown
“In every girl’s life there is a boy she’ll never forget and a summer where it all started.-Unknown
“Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose.-Unknown
“Celebrate summer–sun-drenched days and starlit nights.-Gooseberry Patch
“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie-
True Poems flee.-Emily Dickinson
“A life without love is like a year without summer.-Swedish Proverb
“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
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.-Russell Baker
“Summer is filled with breaking the rules and standing apart, ignoring your head and following you heart.-Unknown
“Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.-Paul Pitchford
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss. It’s a sip of wine, it’s summertime. Sweet summertime. -Kenny Chesney
“In summer, the song sings itself.-William Carlos Williams
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.-Kellie Elmore
“Summer days driftin’ away.-Summer Nights, Grease
“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.-One Direction
“The tan lines will fade. The memories won’t.-Unknown
“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. 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
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.-Barry Cornwall
“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. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.-William Shakespeare
“Give me back my summer nights, when it never gets dark, when we never see the stars, but the beautiful sun we can always watch climbing up and down on the horizon. Give me a summer to remember so I can tell a story about it when I am older, and give me a beautiful summer end, with a lover or a best friend.-Rebecka Skogh
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.-Sebastian Faulks
