Short Summer Quotes - Page 2

• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Relationship, Summer, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• 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.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Now is the winter of our discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Merchant Of Venice

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• 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

  Love, Marriage, Summer

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

  Patricia Briggs

  Summer, Mean, Winter

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.197, Penguin

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• Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

  Pablo Neruda

  Summer, Butterfly, June

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.83, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Summer, Wind, People

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Men

  Sonnet 18

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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

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• Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.103

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• The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

  Isak Dinesen

  Summer, Dream, Morning

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.37, Vintage

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• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Summer, Real, Night

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• We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Years, Body

  "'In Memoriam, July 19, 1914' ('White Flock')". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1917.

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