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

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

 —Russell Baker

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work 13 times an hour, she can hurt you.

 —Erma Bombeck

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language.

 —Henry James

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

 —Wallace Stevens

In summer, the song sings itself.

 —William Carlos Williams

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

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

 —Nora Ephron

The bigger the summer vacation, the harder the fall.

 —anonymous

And so the seasons went rolling into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

 —Henry David Thoreau

It will not always be summer: build barns.

 —Hesiod

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

—anonymous

I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, / The slow result of Life’s decay, / To be once more a little child / For one bright summer day.

 —Lewis Carroll

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

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.

 —James Russell Lowell

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