August is here and so is summer. If you are looking for August quotes, look no further. We gathered the best quotes on August that include hello August quotes, welcome August quotes, happy August quotes, August month quotes, Fourth of August quotes, August inspirational quotes, short August quotes, August motivational quotes, positive August quotes, funny August quotes, quotes about August and summer, quotes for August, August sayings and August captions.
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August Quotes
Here are our favorite August quotes.
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” – Sarah Dessen
“That August time it was delight / To watch the red moons wane to white.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there’s a star called Aldebaran? And that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars?” – Elizabeth Enright
“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.” ―Henry David Thoreau
“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov
“That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.” – Garth Brooks
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath
“August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame.” ―Henry Rollins
“Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.” ―Lauren Oliver
“The quiet August noon has come; A slumberous silence fills the sky; The winds are still, the trees are dumb, In glassy sleep the waters lie.” ― William Cullen Bryant
“August breeze— perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.” ― Meeta Ahluwalia
Hello August Quotes
Check out these hello August quotes.
“Hello, August! Now, the days are going to be hotter and the nights even longer.”
“Goodbye July, and a big hello to August.”
“Hello August, please be kind and less happening. I am not in the mood to go through a lot of excitement this month.”
“Hello, August! Let the summer holiday begin.”
“Hello, August! Be a month of peace and love.”
“Hello August, I know you are going to be a great month for me.”
“Goodbye July. It’s a new month with new hope and a new spirit. Hello August! Please, be good to me.”
“Hello August, please be a good month that brings smiles and happiness to our lives.”
“It’s the nature of the world. One thing remains, and one gone. Goodbye July and Hello August.”
“Hello, August and Goodbye July. Here’s to an exciting, joyful, enjoyable, peaceful, and blessed month.”
Welcome August Quotes
Here are some great welcome August quotes and sayings.
Keep calm and welcome August.
Welcome August!
Welcoming the month of August
Welcome August! Nice to see you!
Welcoming August one day at a time
Welcome August. I’m ready for summer vacation!
Welcome August: now go do what you do best
Welcome to the first day of August
Happy to be welcoming August
Though Goodbyes are depressing, but Hellos are always pleasing. So welcome August and say goodbye to July, the lovely month of celebrating freedom.
Welcome, August! A bounty of beautiful beginnings and neverending blessings. Hey, you, the reader, may your all dreams come true this month.
Good things are going to happen. Welcome, August!
Welcome 1st August and end August by setting goals, saying prayers, and working hard.
Entering into the 8th month of the year means the next half of the year is yours. Welcome August with positive vibes only.
Ocean, summer, beach, and barbecues. Welcome August.
Happy August Quotes
For everyone who is happy to see August roll around, these happy August quotes and sayings are for you. And if you like happy quotes check out our list of Short Happy Quotes.
Happy August: time to head to the beach
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Happy August.
Happy August – I love that I live in a world where there are Augusts
Happy August!
Happy August! May the warm days ahead fill you with joy!
Happy August and hello beach!
Happy August – remember to take your summer vacation
Happy August, everyone
Month of August Quotes
If you are looking for month of August quotes, look no further. Pick your favorite quotes for August month now.
“August is a great month in the garden, with many flowers, including dahlias, sunflowers and other hot-colored blooms at their peak.” ―BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine
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“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
“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
“August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear – the first sign of advancing autumn.” ―Victor Nekrasov
“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.” ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
“Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.” – Henry Rollins
“My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.” – Rick Bass
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“Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.” ― Rolf van der Wind
August 1st Quotes and Sayings
Check out these first day of August quotes and sayings.
“The first day of August is here, which means summer is on its way out.”
“Welcome to the first day of August.”
“The 1st day of August has arrived, and it’s the perfect time to hit the beach.”
“Welcome to the start of another great month!”
“Enjoy your 1st day of August.”
“Today is the first day of August which means it’s time to celebrate!”
“Happy 1st day of August! Time to enjoy this beautiful weather.”
“Wishing you the best on your first day of August.”
“Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: ‘After a heavy rainfall, poems titled ‘Rain’ pour in from across the nation.’” – Sylvia Plath
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, lke the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone.” – Natalie Babbitt
August Inspirational Quotes
If you like these inspirational August quotes you should also check out our list of Short Inspirational Quotes.
“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation . . . for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.” ―Max Heindel
“A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.” – Donald G. Mitchell
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.” ―Ray Bradbury
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” ―Sarah Dessen
“Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” ― Melissa Marr
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood
“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.” – Henry David Thoreau
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“Make your June good, July better, and the month of August best by looking into the eyes of the sun.”
“Life in summers demands June, July, and August and, in return, wants all your enthusiasm and energy.”
Short August Quotes
If you like these short August quotes, check out our list of Best Short Quotes.
“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time…” ―Taylor Swift
“It’s always summer somewhere.” – Lily Pulitzer
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“August is the month of the high-sailing hawks.” – John Burroughs
“Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.” – Debasish Mridha
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden
“It was August, and the fields were high with corn.” ― Melanie Gideon
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”- Regina Brett
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
August Motivational Quotes
You will love these motivational August quotes.
“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent.” – Meka Boyle
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” – Swedish Proverb
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“Write about winter in the summer.” – Annie Dillard
“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
“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Junea Angelou
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves
Positive August Quotes
If you like these August positive quotes, have a look at our list of Short Positive Quotes.
“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.” – Kent Nerburn
“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
“Take me to that island where people celebrate in the streets in August . . . Take me to Barbados.” ―Charmaine J. Forde
“August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.” – Jean Hersey
“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
“The brilliant poppy flaunts her head, Amidst the ripening grain, And adds her voice to sell the song,
That August’s here again.” ― Helen Winslow
“After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.” – Samuel Rutherford
Funny August Quotes
These humorous August quotes will put a smile on your face. Check out our list of Funny Short Quotes.
“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
“Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.” – Basil Rathbone
“August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.” – Crestless Wave
“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
“I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.” – Ethan Suplee
“To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.” – Paul Johnson
“August is the Sunday of summer
I wish we could turn the hour glass over
I wish that i could hold you closer
But August is the Sunday of summer”
– MaK Cov
When August days are hot an’ dry,
I won’t sit by an’ sigh or die,
I’ll get my bottle (on the sly)
And go ahead, and fish, and lie…
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Quotes About August and Summer
Check out these quotes about August and summer. If you like these August summer quotes, you might also like our list of Short Summer Quotes and End of Summer Quotes.
“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.” – Mary Oliver
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov
“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.” – Ralph Waldo Emmerson
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeannette Walls
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
“In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified.” – Denis Mackail
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” ― Kellie Elmore
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”- John Burroughs
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” – K.D. Lang
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”- Hosea Ballou
“Summer. The seasons between spring and autumn, comprising the Northern Hemisphere, the warmest months of the year: June, July, and August. The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.” ― Cecelia Ahern
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”- C. Day Lewis
“In the long dusks of summer, we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.” ―Steven Millhauser
Funny Quotes on August and Summer
If you like these funny quotes on summer and August, be sure to check out our list of Funny Summer Quotes.
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.” – E.B. White
“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.” ―Henry Rollins
“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
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.” – Henry Rollins
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every summer, my mother would say, ‘Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.’” ―Chris Matthews
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck
“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
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” ― Patricia Briggs
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ― Nora Ephron
“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
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” – Walter Winchell
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” ― Kellie Elmore
Last Quotes for August
Here are our last quotes for August.
“Every year I go to Denver, usually between June and August. I hire a car and head up to the Rocky Mountain National Park, about a three-hour drive. It’s my idea of heaven on earth and just talking about it puts me in a good mood.” – Gavin Esler
“Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.” – Sue Hubbell
“The August sun is pouring on the land,
His scorching rays, and vegetation stands
Beseeching to the skies for showers again
And being answered like the prayers of men…”
– Ed Blair
New Month Quotes
Here are our favorite new month quotes. Check out our full list of the best New Month Quotes.
“Cheers to a new month and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Let this new month bring great miracles, new visions and greater blessings for you and your beloved ones.” – Rajesh Goyal
“I wish you a beautiful new month from the first day of this month to the last day.” – J. K. Rowling
“The object of a new month is not that we should have a new month…we should have a new soul.” — G. K. Chesterton
“New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.” – April Mae Monterrosa
“It is worth taking the time to stop and contemplate at the beginning of each new month.” – Nadine Locke
August Sayings
No one is sure who said these August sayings first. Pick your favorite saying about August now! You might also like our full list of Summer Sayings.
“May your month of August be filled with wonderful blessings of good health, love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.”
“A new month always brings positive vibes with it and infuse new energetic souls in us.”
“Happy people are the best, and August is the month of the happiest people.”
“The scent of August: Bright sunlit skies, nature’s warm colors, and the smell of seasons are about to change. The hint of new beginnings, knowing something wonderful is around the bend.”
“August: The last hot, sweaty month, standing between me and pumpkin season.”
“To all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say… Calm down! It’s August.”
“When you enter August, you want some beach days, some relaxing days, and some wife-out-of-town days.”
“Some days are cool while others are hot; August is the month we are talking about.”
“Make your June good, July better, and the month of August best.”
“August is filled with the charm of long days and short nights, and in between nothing.”
“Life is at the beach. All you have to do is find your wave in August.”
“If you’re not barefoot on the beach day in August, then you’re overdressed.”
August Captions
Use these August captions for your next August post.
Well hello there August
It’s August – Time to head to the beach
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Hello, August!
It’s August already so I’m off enjoying summer while it lasts
Please be good to me, August
August…Chapter 8
Hey August! Show me the sun!
August brings you joy, happiness, love, and lots of sunshine
August is like the Sunday of summer
Life is better in flip-flops. Life is better in August.
And there you have it! Our list of the best quotes for August and August sayings. We hope you found one that spoke to you.
Now get out and enjoy your August!
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