Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.                                                                       —Erma Bombeck

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

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.              —Anton Chekhov

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

—Wallace Stevens

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

—Dame Edith Wharton

In summer, the song sings itself.         —William Carlos Williams

The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco.

—Mark Twain

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

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

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.             —Bern Williams

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

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 bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.            —Nora Ephron