Summer Quotes and Beach Sayings | Greeting Card Poet

We’ve assembled some of the best summer quotes and sayings for you. A beach is the ultimate destination of most vacations. Whether it is a weekend vacation or an annual holiday, most people love to find a beautiful beach where they could find all the relaxation under the sun.

You may find many of these quotes and sayings to be funny while others have a deeper meaning to them. Some might make for a perfect comment on social media or on a postcard sent home from an exotic location.

Best Summer Quotes

Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.
Unknown

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
T. S. Eliot

If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.
Unknown

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.
Kellie Elmore

Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides.
Unknown

Beach Life Quotes

Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.
Debasish Mridha

It doesn’t matter where you go in life as long as you go to the beach
Unknown

Beaches are God’s poetry.
Steve Maraboli

Nothing soothes the soul like a walk on the beach.
Unknown

What a boon to live on the water! Such delicious shades and hues! This is a template worthy of the greatest painters.
Adriana Trigiani

A walk on the beach is a simple activity but its rewards cannot be counted. The sound of the waves, fresh air, and endless sky make us happy and serene.
Unknown

The harder the access, the sweeter the find.
G.J. Walker-Smith

Good Summer Quotes

Live in the sunshine swim the sea drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia – the place where all our dreams come true.
Roxane Gay

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach.
Brian Wilson

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It’s my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I’m away working.
Behati Prinsloo

Beach: a place of relaxation, rest and tranquility.
Unknown

Let’s watch the Sunset

I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.
Rosamund Pike

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau

I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.
Genesis Rodriguez

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Lindbergh

A beach is not only a sweep of sand but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
Henry Grunwald

Funny Beach Quotes

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.
Shannon Celebi

May the inherent stress and peril of unfolding a beach chair not sabotage your plans to relax this summer.
Unknown

When all else fails, take a vacation.
Betty Williams

A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card.
Farmer’s Almanac

Let’s go spend a day at the beach checking our email.
Unknown

The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

The beach is a great place to relieve the soul-crushing stress you build up in the traffic going to the beach.
Unknown

Beach Quotes Funny

My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.
Thoreau

A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices.
Hal Chadwick

Please join me at the beach to help detract attention from my body abnormalities.
Unknown

I always appreciate you warning me about sunburn after I’ve gotten horribly sunburned.
Unknown

Short Summer Quotes

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen

In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
Morris Fishbein

Who first invented work, and bound the free and holiday-rejoicing spirit down?
Charles Lamb

A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
Unknown

When in doubt, go on vacation!
Unknown

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.
Earl Wilson

Vacations brighten a man. They tend to make his work more attractive to him and to make him more attractive to his work.
Harry Van Demark

Fun Summer Quotes

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William James

Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.
Frank Tyger

Holiday: A period of activity so intense that it can only be undertaken three or four weeks in the year.
Miles Kington

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
Seneca

If you come home as happy as you leave, you have had a good vacation.
Unknown

It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.
David Brenner

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart when the full tide of feeling overflows.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Clever Summer Quotes

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph

Summertime is always the best of what might be.
Charles Bowden

The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus

When the sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night’s darkness had brought in.
Tista Ray

I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.
Susan Branch

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Steve Martin

The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Tip: These summer quotes make great photo captions.

Summertime and the living is easy

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
Louisa May Alcott

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
Eberhard Arnold

Sunshine is Nature’s hug and spirit breath to the earth.
Terri Guillemets

Sunshine is my quest.
Winston Churchill

By Liz Olson

Liz is a poet and writer living in Minneapolis.