As August approaches, we find ourselves at the cusp of the end of summer. It’s a time filled with fond memories of warm days and relaxation, but also a reminder that the season is fleeting, soon to be replaced by fall routines and cooler weather.
To help you make the most of this transitional month, I’ve compiled 90 positive, witty, uplifting, and funny August quotes. My hope is that you and your loved ones will find something here to bring a smile to your faces, release some stress, and make this month a joyful and fun one.
Funny August Quotes for a Happy End to the Summer Season
“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.” – Sue Monk Kidd
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.” – James Dent
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker
“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.” – Anne Fadiman
“August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your New Year’s resolution for seven months and not doing it for the next five.” – Crestless Wave
“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“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.” – Natalie Babbitt
“August is the Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.” – Mak Cov
“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.” – Gladys Taber
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.” – Henry Rollins
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” – Sarah Dessen
“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.” – Rasmenia Massoud
“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.” – Jane Smiley
“The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.” – Joseph Epstein
“August depresses me a little. I don’t even feel like eating. And when I don’t eat, that’s a sure sign of stagnation.” – Willard Scott
“Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy, and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.” – Sylvia Plath
“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong.” – Alice Hoffman
“The English winter ending in July to recommence in August.” – Lord Byron
“It’s part of the American experience. We deal with mosquitoes in August.” – Monica Hesse
“When August days are hot and dry, I won’t sit by and sigh or die, I’ll get my bottle on the sly, and go ahead, and fish, and lie.” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.” – Jenny Han
Hilarious August Quotes That Will Make You Laugh
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” – Walter Winchell
“I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new school year.” – Bridget Willard
“Every summer, my mother would say, ‘Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'” – Chris Matthews
“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.” – Erma Bombeck
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” – Raymond Duncan
“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” – Nora Ephron
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.” – Jane Austen
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” – Mark Twain
“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!” – Chris Pratt
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We used to play football on the levee with no shirts on in the summer August in New Orleans, and my skin would turn red.” – Aaron Neville
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” – Kellie Elmore
“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.” – Taylor Swift
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
Short and Funny August Quotes
“August is a wicked month.” – Edna O’Brien
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.” – Regina Brett
“It’s always summer somewhere.” – Lilly Pulitzer
“The August sun, God’s blood blister.” – Donald E. Westlake
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen
“In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
“In August, most of Europe goes on holiday.” – Tony Visconti
“Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.” – Thomas Tusser
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” – John Mayer
“August slipped away like a bottle of wine.” – Taylor Swift
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” – The Beatles
“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!” – Catherine Pulsifer
Funny and Beautiful August Quotes for Your Instagram and Letter Board
“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!” – Kenny Chesney
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” – Katie Lee
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.” – Brian Wilson
“That August time it was delight, to watch the red moons wane to white.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.” – Victoria Erickson
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume
“August of another summer, and once again, I am drinking the sun, and the lilies again are spread across the water.” – Mary Oliver
“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James
“The brilliant poppy flaunts her head amidst the ripening grain, and adds her voice to sell the song that August is here again.” – Helen M. Winslow
“One evening in August, you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden, it’s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.” – Tove Jansson
“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” – Kellie Elmore
“On the shore of nature’s magic, I dreamed summer knew no end.” – Angie Weiland-Crosby
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeannette Walls
“Our one wish is that the summer never ends!” – Paul Dini
“It’s August and soon everything will be all about pumpkin spice again, no matter if you like it or not.” – Alice Jones
“Your August can be as memorable as the leaving summer.” – Jennifer Lewis
“August is the border between summer and autumn. It is the most beautiful month I know.” – Tove Jansson
Funny and Aesthetic End of Summer Quotes
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.” – E.B. White
“Alas, summer sun can’t last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.” – Sarah MacLean
“The only thing moving fast in August is the calendar – everything else is still in that summer slow motion.” – Jim Harper
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath
“Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer.” – Denis Mackail
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.” – Sarah Helen Whitman
“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.” – Paul Monette
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.” – Sebastian Faulks
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
“By August, my garden has given up on me, and frankly, I’m done with it too.” – Sarah Kelly
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov
“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
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde
“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.” – Susan Branch
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” – Celia Thaxter
“August is for changes and strength.” – Luke Hamlet
“Nothing says August like pretending you still have plenty of summer left while secretly you’re starting to panic about September.” – Sandra Shea
Want more laughs and inspiration for your summer? Then check out these inspirational end of summer quotes, the funny summer quotes here and also this one with lots of short and positive summer quotes.