A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in
winter.
-Patricia Briggs
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like
it.
-Russell Baker
Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its
own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the
weather.
-Robertson Davies
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of
our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting
dissipation.
-Evelyn Waugh
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
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons
of the year.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have
to go to summer school.
-Peter De Vries
In the depth of winter I finally realized that there was in me an
invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention
hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
-Roy Blount, Jr.
Memory can glean, but never renew. It brings us joys faint as is
the perfume of flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is
gone.
-Henry Ward Beecher
One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too
one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and
happy.
-Aristotle
People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for
happiness.
-Unattributed
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the
trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching
the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of
time.
-John Lubbock
Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
-George R.R. Martin
The climate is just like it always was. Hot in the summer, cold in
the winter and brainless in Washington.
-Steve Goddard
The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the
country more verdant and beautiful.
-Susanne Necker
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(May 25 is also the birthday of Bennett Cerf and Ralph Waldo Emerson.)
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