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
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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
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
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
My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.
Thoreau
Funny Summer Quotes
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
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
Nora Ephron
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
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
Carefree 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
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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
It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!
Kenny Chesney
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
Jeannette Walls
Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.
K.D. Lang
Inspirational Summer Quotes
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.
Henry David Thoreau
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, The Great Gatsby
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
Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.
Van Morrison
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
John Steinbeck
Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.
Melissa Marr
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter
Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
C. Day Lewis
Summer Nights
Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is about.
John Mayer
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens
Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.
Bryan Procter
Summer sun, something’s begun, but, oh, oh, the summer nights.
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, “Summer Nights,” Grease
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare
Beautiful Summer Days
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.
John Steinbeck
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
Maud Hart Lovelace
If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.
Katie Lee
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.
Jenny Han
Spring being a touch act to follow, God created June.
Al Bernstein
It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
Anne Fadiman
Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.
Kellie Elmore
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes
Sunny Days
I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun—my children are horrified!
Danielle Steel
In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other…everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time – this collection of weeks when anything was possible.
Sarah Dessen
I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We’d take a picnic, and I’d spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn’t get me out of there.
Olga Kurylenko
Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.
Debasish Mridha
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
Toni Morrison
You are so much sunshine in every square inch.
Walt Whitman
Summer Vacation Quotes
Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
Brian Wilson
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something.
Regina Brett
Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
Harper Lee
Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
Zooey Deschanel
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
Sylvia Plath
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are chirping, and the lawn mower is broken.
Unknown
By Liz Olson
Liz is a poet and writer living in Minneapolis.
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