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<\/p>\nAugust is here with plenty of hot and lazy days in the sun.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s also a transitional period when summer soon is coming to a close and work and schools are starting again.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s post I want to simply share 80 of the most positive, funny and beautiful short August quotes.<\/p>\n
I hope these quick but powerful sayings will help you to make the most of these warm August days and the last of your summer.<\/p>\n
Short August Quotes for The Last Days of Summer<\/h2>\n
\u201cThis morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer\u2019s last stand.\u201d
\u2013 Sara Baume<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.\u201d
\u2013 Mary Oliver<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.\u201d
\u2013 Natalie Babbitt<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.\u201d
\u2013 William Cullen Bryant<\/p>\n
\u201cToday is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.\u201d
\u2013 Rolf van der Wind<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust 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.\u201d
\u2013 Victoria Erickson<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.\u201d
\u2013 Sylvia Plath<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust was nearly over \u2013 the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children.\u201d
\u2013 Viktor N?krasov<\/p>\n
\u201cSome days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.\u201d
\u2013 William Faulkner<\/p>\n
\u201cOne evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it\u2019s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.\u201d
\u2013 Tove Jansson<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust 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.\u201d
\u2013 Jonathan Safran Foer<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.\u201d
\u2013 Sarah Helen Whitman<\/p>\n
\u201cMy 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.\u201d
\u2013 Rick Bass<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was August, and the fields were high with corn.\u201d
\u2013 Melanie Gideon<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time.\u201d
\u2013 Taylor Swift<\/p>\n
\u201cIf June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.\u201d
\u2013 Sarah Dessen<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze.\u201d
\u2013 Rasmenia Massoud<\/p>\n
\u201cCaught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer.\u201d
\u2013 Denis Mackail<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I\u2019ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.\u201d
\u2013 Henry Rollins<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.\u201d
\u2013 Stephen King<\/p>\n
Positive and Short August Quotes and Sayings for a Happy Month<\/h2>\n
\u201cBreathe the sweetness that hovers in August.\u201d
\u2013 Denise Levertov<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.\u201d
\u2013 Joseph Wood Krutch<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.\u201d
\u2013 Jenny Han<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.\u201d
\u2013 Gladys Taber<\/p>\n
\u201cThe weather is great, and the sun is always out in August.\u201d
\u2013 Anna Scott<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust is for changes and strength.\u201d
\u2013 Luke Hamlet<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust is a time of growing up, of forgotten forevers, full of the sweetest intent.\u201d
\u2013 Meka Boyle<\/p>\n
\u201cThe brilliant poppy flaunts her head amidst the ripening grain, and adds her voice to sell the song that August is here again.\u201d
\u2013 Helen M. Winslow<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation.\u201d
\u2013 Max Heindel<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember 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.\u201d
\u2013 Kent Nerburn<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery 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\u2019s my idea of heaven on earth.\u201d
\u2013 Gavin Esler<\/p>\n
\u201cIn August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue.\u201d
\u2013 Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust is ripening grain in the fields, vivid dahlias fling, huge tousled blossoms through gardens, and Joe Pye weed dusts the meadow purple.\u201d
\u2013 Jean Hersey<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust breeze \u2013 perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.\u201d
\u2013 Meeta Ahluwalia<\/p>\n
\u201cThat August time, it was a delight to watch the red moons wane to white.\u201d
\u2013 Algernon Charles Swinburne<\/p>\n
\u201cYouth 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.\u201d
\u2013 Ik Marvel<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen 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.\u201d
\u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust is the month of the high sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease.\u201d
\u2013 John Burroughs<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don\u2019t notice if it\u2019s August or December when they are happy.\u201d
\u2013 Anthony Mill<\/p>\n
\u201cTake me to that island where people celebrate in the streets in August.\u201d
\u2013 Charmaine J. Forde<\/p>\n
Funny and Short August Quotes for Your Instagram or Letter Board<\/h2>\n
\u201cThe month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.\u201d
\u2013 Sue Monk Kidd<\/p>\n
\u201cAh, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.\u201d
\u2013 Russell Baker<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust 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.\u201d
\u2013 Crestless Wave<\/p>\n
\u201cWalking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.\u201d
\u2013 Pat Conroy<\/p>\n
\u201cA vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you\u2019ve been taking.\u201d
\u2013 Earl Wilson<\/p>\n
\u201cLeaving 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.\u201d
\u2013 Jane Smiley<\/p>\n
\u201cAlways keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong.\u201d
\u2013 Alice Hoffman<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust, the summer\u2019s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.\u201d
\u2013 Henry Rollins<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.\u201d
\u2013 Joseph Epstein<\/p>\n
\u201cA perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.\u201d
\u2013 James Dent<\/p>\n
\u201cThe August sun, God\u2019s blood blister.\u201d
\u2013 Donald E. Westlake<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes August isn\u2019t recognized until December.\u201d
\u2013 Meka Boyle<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s part of the American experience. We deal with mosquitoes in August.\u201d
\u2013 Monica Hesse<\/p>\n
\u201cTo all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say, calm down! It\u2019s August.\u201d
\u2013 Unknown<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust is the Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.\u201d
\u2013 Mak Cov<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.\u201d
\u2013 Walter Winchell<\/p>\n
\u201cThe English winter ending in July to recommence in August.\u201d
\u2013 Lord Byron<\/p>\n
\u201cOne time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.\u201d
\u2013 George Carlin<\/p>\n
Short and Beautiful August Quotes on the Magic of End of Summer<\/h2>\n
\u201cI love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.\u201d
\u2013 Tove Jansson<\/p>\n
\u201cLess than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us \u2013 long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.\u201d
\u2013 Lauren Oliver<\/p>\n
\u201cThe August cloud melts into streams of rain.\u201d
\u2013 William Cullen Bryant<\/p>\n
\u201cOne day you discover you are alive\u2026 but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.\u201d
\u2013 Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust is the month when wars start. It\u2019s when the water dries up, and the spirit begins to wither.\u201d
\u2013 Al Aronowitz<\/p>\n
\u201cDry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.\u201d
\u2013 Thomas Tusser<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.\u201d
\u2013 Garth Brooks<\/p>\n
\u201cThe foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there, a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.\u201d
\u2013 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.\u201d
\u2013 Robert Lowell<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the mute August afternoon, they trembled to some undertune of music in the silver air.\u201d
\u2013 Algernon Charles Swinburne<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen August days are hot and dry, I won\u2019t sit by and sigh or die, I\u2019ll get my bottle on the sly, and go ahead, and fish, and lie.\u201d
\u2013 Paul Laurence Dunbar<\/p>\n
\u201cThose late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, and reeking manure.\u201d
\u2013 Colette<\/p>\n
\u201cThe summer night is like a perfection of thought.\u201d
\u2013 Wallace Stevens<\/p>\n
\u201cHow sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys on the grass. All the warm wakeful August night.\u201d
\u2013 Thom Gunn<\/p>\n
\u201cAugust evenings are especially stricken with melancholy \u2013 as if the ghosts of all past summers came rushing to haunt my heart.\u201d
\u2013 Letters of Summer Past<\/p>\n
\u201cSmell brings to mind a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town.\u201d
\u2013 Diane Ackerman<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the rest of the vacation, there was hardly a day when they did not go up to it. Preferably in the long, smoky, delicious August evenings when the white moths sailed over the tansy plantation.\u201d
\u2013 Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/p>\n
\u201cIn an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring its weight out over the populace.\u201d
\u2013 Kelsey Brickl<\/p>\n
\u201cAround the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars.\u201d
\u2013 Elizabeth Enright<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight like a spy through the ripening countryside.\u201d
\u2013 Sarah Orne Jewett<\/p>\n
\u201cLate 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.\u201d
\u2013 Sue Hubbell<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year \u2013 the days when summer is changing into autumn \u2013 the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.\u201d
\u2013 E.B. White<\/p>\n
Want more inspiration for this part of the summer?<\/strong> Then have a look at these inspirational August quotes<\/a>, the end of summer quotes<\/a> in this post and also these short summer quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August is here with plenty of hot and lazy days in the sun. But it\u2019s also a transitional period when summer soon is coming to a close and work and schools are starting again. In today\u2019s post I want to simply share 80 of the most positive, funny and beautiful short August quotes. I hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97333,12376],"tags":[1622,3124,382,2221,97334,539],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-271643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational-quotes","category-personal-development","tag-beautiful","tag-days","tag-funny","tag-positive","tag-sayings","tag-summer"],"yoast_head":"\n