Summer is about fun and simply relaxing.
Well, that’s at least two of the main things if you ask me.
And in today’s post I want to help you out with that by sharing 80 of the wittiest, most clever and funny summer quotes.
Ones that will give you and your friends or family a couple of good laughs.
Ones that can help you relax and relieve some of that stress that’s been building up since the new year so that you can decompress and fully enjoy your summer.
And ones that are great for sharing on, for example, Instagram to spread the positive and relaxing vibes or on your letter board to bring that energy into your home all summer long.
Funny Summer Quotes for Laughs and Stress Relief
“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
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell
“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
“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!”
– Chris Pratt
“Sorry, did you say something? It’s summertime, and I only hear and speak beach, pool, flip-flops, and margaritas.”
– Unknown
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan
“I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing.”
– Unknown
“Currently in a close relationship with my Air Conditioner.”
– Sandra Shea
“If I don’t make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!”
– April Mae Monterrosa
“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
“God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.”
– Rachel Caine
“I believe someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created; no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.”
– Michelle Franklin
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
– Jane Austen
“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
– Anne Fadiman
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
– Mark Twain
“Heat, ma’am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.”
– Sydney Smith
“Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double and act single.”
– Unknown
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.”
– Aimee Friedman
“Wanna hangout this summer?” “I can’t wait to see you!” “When are you free?” Me: Well, first I have to rest for twenty hours a day.”
– Unknown
“I don’t tan, I burn.”
– Unknown
Short Funny Summer Quotes for Your Instagram
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
“I told you to wear sunscreen.”
– Unknown
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin
“You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream.”
– Unknown
“A cloudy day at a beach is still a day at the beach.”
– Unknown
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett
“When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
– Everett Dirksen
“I plan on avoiding embarrassing tan lines by sticking to indoor activities.”
– Unknown
“What grows best in the heat: fantasy, unreason, lust.”
– Salman Rushdie
“I’m glad it’s finally hot enough to complain about how hot it is.”
– Unknown
“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“Salt in the air, sand in my hair.”
– Unknown
“A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“It doesn’t matter where you go in life, as long as you go to the beach.”
– Unknown
“Summer is like the ultimate taco…. hot as hell, totally thrilling, and gone before you know it.”
– Unknown
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
– Nora Ephron
“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”
– Bob Marley
“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
– The Beatles
Hilarious Summer Quotes on Work and on Vacations
“Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.”
– Gayland Anderson
“Summer – the time when parents realize how underpaid teachers actually are.”
– Unknown
“During summer vacation, you get to do all your favorite things; cook hot dogs over a campfire (while being eaten alive by mosquitoes).”
– Bruce Lansky
“In the summer, the choice is ours. No work in sight. Nothing to do but what we want to do, all day long.”
– Unknown
“The average vacation is one-tenth playing – nine-tenths paying.”
– Arnold Glasow
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”
– Robert Orben
“When all else fails, take a vacation.”
– Betty Williams
“Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.”
– Frank Tyger
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
– Jeannette Walls
“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
“Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!”
– Lea Mishell
“The only time that love takes a holiday is when we go on vacation together.”
– Anthony T. Hincks
“The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.”
– Jack Adam Weber
“Good weather all week, but come the weekend, and the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot, they complain; too cold, they complain; and when it’s just right, they’re watching TV.”
– Rita Rudner
“Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.”
– John Egerton
“Summer is finally here! School is out and I am kicking back my heels and watching the clouds go by.”
– Yvonne Martinez Ward
“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”
– Brendan Behan
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
– Buckaroo Banzi
“July is a blind date with summer.”
– Hal Borland
“I just need summer nights and fun.”
– Unknown
Funny Hot Summer and End of Summer Quotes for Your Letter Board
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
– Katie Lee
“How quick time goes by now, compared to when you were a kid. Summer used to last forever. Now it’s twelve weeks.”
– John Goodman
“There’s no place like home. Except for the beach.”
– Unknown
“This kind of heat sucks when you’re not at the beach with a cold beer in your hand. I need a vacation from my vacation.”
– April Mae Monterrosa
“It was always the view of my parents… that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
– Ian Mcewan
“The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.”
– Victoria Aveyard
“When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.”
– Ajahn Brahm
“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.”
– Henry Rollins
“July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.”
– Laura Kasischke
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
– Patricia Briggs
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets
“People change more frequently than the seasons do, and still, we blame the sun for bringing in the heat.”
– Shweta Tale
“It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.”
– John Cheever
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith
“I’m sorry for the things I said when it was rainy autumn and freezing winter.”
– Unknown
“Our one wish is that the summer never ends! In the summer, I will get a golden tan.”
– Paul Dini
“The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.”
– Unknown
“Summer’s here and the time is right / For dancing in the street.”
– Martha and the Vandellas
“I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.”
– Kevin (from the TV-show The Office)
Want more fun summer inspiration? Then have a look at these short summer quotes, the inspirational summer quotes in this post and also this one with funny quotes of the day and this one with short funny quotes.
