DAY

SUMMER-QUOTE-FOR-THE-DAY

1

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

-Dame Edith Wharton

2

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,

All on a summer day:

The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,

And took them quite away!

--Lewis Carroll

3

It will not always be summer: build barns.

-- Hesiod

4

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

--Russel Baker

5

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

--Hal Borland

6

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

7

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

--Peter De Vries

8

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

--William Shakespeare

9

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

--Alighieri Dante

10

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

--Hosea Ballou

11

Summer is the topsy-turvy season when the goldfish have to be boarded out while the family goes on a fishing trip.

-- Unknown

12

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

--Horace Walpole

13

Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

--John Ruskin

14

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.

--Robert Richardson's "Annette" adapted by Mark Twain

15

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

16

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

--Jonathan Swift

17

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

--Edna St. Vincent Millay

18

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,

May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

--William Shakespeare

19

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

20

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

-- Unknown

21

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

22

Summer makes a silence after spring.

--Vita Sackville-West

23

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

--St. John Chrysostom

24

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

--John A. Macdonald

25

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

--Anton Chekhov

26

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

27

It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning the rest of their lives.

--Patricia Fripp

28

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

--Albert Camus

29

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

--Langston Hughes

30

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

--Alfred Austin

31

To see the Summer Sky

Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie--

True Poems flee --

--Dickinson Emily