Sayings about Summer
No year has two summers. ~ Russian Proverbs
If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer’s passing. ~ Lebanese Proverb
Winter will ask you what you did during the summer. ~ Romanian Proverbs
It is not summer until the crickets sing. ~ Greek Proverbs
The summer comes and kisses the child, the winter comes and kills it. ~ Estonian Proverbs
You cannot build a house for last year’s summer. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
You have summer and you have winter — why, then, be in a hurry? ~ Russian Proverb
A life without love is like a year without summer. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Midsummer night is not long but it sets many cradles rocking. ~ Swedish Proverb
The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away. ~ Traditional Proverbs
No matter how much snow falls, it won’t remain there all the way till summer. ~ Turkish Proverbs
One swallow does not make a summer. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Summer
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 afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.~ Henry James
Bright summer is crowned with roses; deep in the forest arbutus doth hide. ~ Dora Read Goodale
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~ John Keats
Summer has set in with its usual severity. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ~ John Steinbeck
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ~ Anton Chekhov
Beneath the winter’s snow lie germs of summer flowers. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ~ Hosea Ballou
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 air of summer was sweeter than wine. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ~ Author Unknown
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.~ Patricia Briggs
Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass! ~ John Galsworthy
‘Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone. ~ Thomas Moore
Who loves not more the night of June than cold December’s gloomy noon? ~ Sir Walter Scott
The end-of-summer winds make people restless. ~ Sebastian Faulks
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
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~ Celia Thaxter
For men, like butterflies, show not their mealy wings but to the summer. ~ William Shakespeare
Then crowned with flowery hay, came real joy, and summer, with his fervid-beaming eye. ~ Robert Burns
One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~ Jeannette Walls
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment. ~ Lucy Stone
Summer’s parching heat.~ William Shakespeare
The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall. ~ Author Unknown
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ~ Alfred Austin
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. ~ George R.R. Martin
Child of sun, refulgent summer, comes. ~ James Thomson
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~ Russel Baker
[W]oods are filled with the music of birds, and all nature is laughing under the glorious influence of Summer. ~ Charles Lanman
A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special–that makes everything move so fast–is that a summer romance is doomed to end. ~ John Vornholt
Summertime is always the best of what might be. ~ Charles Bowden
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. ~ Barry Cornwall
Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. ~ Hal Borland
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night. ~ Mark Twain
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. ~ Nora Ephron
It will not always be summer; build barns. ~ Hesiod
Thy eternal summer shall not fade. ~ William Shakespeare
Write about winter in the summer. ~ Annie Dillard
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies. ~ Samuel Rutherford
Perhaps there is no time in a summer’s day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning–when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth. ~ George Eliot
In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams
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. ~ Author Unknown
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~ Sam Keen