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Summer is a time of beauty

• In summer, the song sings itself. William Carlos 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
• The summer night is like a perfection of thought. Wallace Stevens
• Never-ending rays of long summer days, violet meadows serene, butterfly’s dream. D’Angelo
• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James
• Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
• Sunshine,  Beauty,  Spring,  Winter,  Autumn

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Summer is a time of magic

• In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They complement its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Magic

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Summer is a time for happiness

• Happiness is a summer breeze, sand between your toes, and your best friend by your side. Rachel
• I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure. Roman Payne
• It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Anna Godbersen
• Happiness

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Summer is a time of flowers …

• Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the serene summer days; they quietly open their petals, and the sun shines into them with its gentle influences.  So I will do for you, if you will yield yourself to me.   Tersteegen
• The flowers are nature’s jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty. George Croly
• In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. Aldo Leopold
• Flowers

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… especially roses …

• Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose.
• It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. Maud Hart
• Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone: All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. Sir Thomas Moore
• Those who don’t pick roses in summer won’t pick them in winter either. German Proverb

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… and butterflies

• 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
• Never-ending rays of long summer days, violet meadows serene, butterfly’s dream. D’Angelo
• Butterflies

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Summer is a time for idleness

• Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen
• 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
• I am Summer, come to lure you away from your computer… come dance on my fresh grass, dig your toes into my beaches. Oriana Green
• I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder. Terri Guillemets
• Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. Regina Brett
• 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. J. Lubbock
• The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. Henry Clay
• Idleness

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Summer is a time for romance

• If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. Bern Williams
• I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. Edna St. Vincent Millay
• It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine … it’s summertime!  Kenny Chesney
• A life without love is like a year without summer. Swedish Proverb
• Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
• Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling. D. Lang
• Romance

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Summer is a time when all’s well with the world

• 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
• 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
• Divine order

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Summer is a time of wonderful memories

• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. Diane Ackerman
• 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. M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
• The tans will fade but the memories will last forever
• Some of the best memories are made in flip flops. Kellie Elmore
• Memory

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Summer is a time of evenings that don’t grow dim till late

• One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
• It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out. Bill Watterson

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Summer is a time to read

• The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don’t, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper. Polly Horvath
• Come with me,’ Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together. Lisa Schroeder
• Reading

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Summer is a time for friendship

• In the summer I have this friend who I am closest to, and sometimes, in the winter, I long to call her up and say, come here and live with me, in this cold place. But we are summer friends. There is a rule it seems, that summer friends don’t get together in the wintertime. Now, sitting here, waiting for her, I realize that I have never seen her in a winter coat, and for some reason that makes me sadder than anything else in the world. Jacqueline Woodson
• My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. George R.R. Martin
• Friendship

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Summer is something to greatly anticipate …

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. Dag Hammarskjold
• 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
• Summertime is always the best of what might be. Charles Bowden
• Anticipation

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… and once it arrives, we wish it would last forever …

• If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… Evelyn Waugh

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… and we feel sad when it ends

• There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go? Joe Wheeler
• Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone: All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. Sir Thomas Moore
• The end-of-summer winds make people restless. Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
• So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o’er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. Anna Letitia Barbauld
• Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. George R.R. Martin
• Impermanence

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Really savour and enjoy summer

• I should like to enjoy this summer flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one for me. Andre Gide
• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning. Robin S. Sharma
• The question, “Which is the happiest season of life?” was asked of an aged man. And he replied: “When spring comes, and in the soft air the buds are breaking on the trees, and they are covered with blossoms, I think, ‘How beautiful is spring’; and when summer comes and covers the trees with its heavy foliage, and singing birds are among the branches, I think, ‘How beautiful is summer.’ When autumn loads them with golden fruit, and their leaves bear the gorgeous tint of frost, I think, ‘How beautiful is autumn.’ And when it is severe winter, and there is neither foliage nor fruit, then I look up through the leafless branches as I never could until now, and see the stars shine in God’s home.
• Those who don’t pick roses in summer won’t pick them in winter either. German Proverb
• Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… Susan Polis Schutz
• Savouring,  Savour life’s simple joys

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Summer is made all the sweeter by winter

• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck
• Who says you need to feel positive all of the time? It’s completely ok to feel sad. See if you can find gratitude in your sadness. If it wasn’t for winter who would enjoy summer? If it wasn’t for ‘yucky’ work, we wouldn’t enjoy ‘fun’ work’? If it wasn’t for ‘bad relationships’ how would you know when you find a ‘great relationship’? Find gratitude in the negative. Maybe even celebrate it because the positive wouldn’t be possible without the negative.
• Winter

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Keep summer within you, even when winter comes

• In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
• One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
• There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. Celia Thaxter
• People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov
• The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day. Henry David Thoreau
• Cheerfulness,  Sunshine

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Summer showers can provide welcome relief from the heat

• How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree. John Clare
• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Langston Hughes

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Summer isn’t always wonderful for it can be sweltering

• Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. Carol Bishop Hipps
• Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russel Baker
• Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir
• Summer has set in with its usual severity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
• It’s not the winter that bothers me – it’s the summers. Walt Alston

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Summer is a metaphor for love and relationships

• A life without love is like a year without summer. Swedish Proverb
• 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.
• A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfil that. That is not loving; it is destroying. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust’s effect is tempest after sun; Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit’s not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full. William Shakespeare
• Metaphors to live by,  Love,  Principles for healthy relationships

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Summer is a metaphor for good things coming to an end

• There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go? Joe Wheeler
• Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone: All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. Sir Thomas Moore
• So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o’er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. Anna Letitia Barbauld
• Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. George R.R. Martin
• But thy eternal summer shall not fade. William Shakespeare
• The last rose of summer. Proverb
• 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
• Impermanence

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Summer is a metaphor for the need to prepare for winter

• The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter. Proverb
• The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. Henry Clay
• He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. Bible
• Preparation

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Summer is a metaphor for a life season of growth

• One of the clever adaptive qualities of bamboo is that it grows its leaves in the summer and its roots in the winter. It takes advantage of each season, and while it appears dormant, it is not. The roots grown in winter prepare for rapid branch and leaf development in summer. We, too, go through seasons, all of which afford us opportunities for different kinds of growth. In a prosperous economic season, there is a lot of building and external expansion. When an economic winter comes, with little activity in the outer world, that is the time for inner deepening. Alan Cohen
• 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
• Growth

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Summer showers are a metaphor for tears

• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. Hosea Ballou
• Tears are Summer showers to the soul. Alfred Austin
• Tears

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Summer showers are a metaphor for pain and its release

• A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air. Henry Ward Beecher
• Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder. Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Pain

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Summer is a metaphor for beauty

• Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare
• But thy eternal summer shall not fade. William Shakespeare
• Beauty

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More summer metaphors

• 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. Dante
• Thus should you think of all this fleeting world; a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; a flash of lightening in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream. Diamond Sutra

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• The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,–of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,–such health, such cheer, they afford forever! Henry David Thoreau
• A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter. Patricia Briggs
• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. Lewis Carroll
• Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York. William Shakespeare
• The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. Yiddish Proverb

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• A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter. W.C. Fields
• A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. Raymond Duncan
• 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
• Do what we can, summer will have its flies. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• During the summer I like to go to the beach and make sand castles out of cement, and wait for kids to run by and try to kick them over. James LeemerSr.
• France had neither winter nor summer nor morals – apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. Mark Twain
• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match. Aneurin Bevan
• He is so fat… in the summer he can sell shade.
• I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday. Mike Morley
• I want you more than a Hagen-Daas on a hot summer day.
• I’ll get you wetter than a Scottish summer.
• 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
• Some people say Birmingham looks great in the summer. I reckon it looks better in the rear-view mirror. Stewart Francis
• Summer camp is where the parents spend a thousand dollars so their daughter can learn to make a fifty-cent potholder.
• Summer Camps: Those places where little boys go for mother’s vacation.
• The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Mark Twain
• The only reason I’ve been going out with this guy all summer is because I have no idea how to operate my gas grill.
• Thirty ways to shape up for summer — number one: eat less; number two: exercise more; number three… What was I talking about? … I’m so hungry right now. Maria Bamford
• This summer I learned that there’s a difference between peeing in the pool and peeing into the pool. Demetri Martin
• We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter. William ‘Bat’ Masterson
• We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. Peter De Vries
• Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
• You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. Harold Eugene ‘Hal’ Roach

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