With school just around the corner, summer starts reaching its peak in the dog days of August, so we have put together a list of all the best short August quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short August sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short August Quotes and Sayings
Good things are going to happen. Welcome, August!
Happy August and hello beach!
“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent.” – Meka Boyle
“In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation.” ―Max Heindel
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov
Goodbye July. It’s a new month with new hope and a new spirit. Hello August! Please, be good to me.
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” – K.D. Lang
“Wishing you the best on your first day of August.”
“Enjoy your 1st day of August.”
“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.” – E.B. White
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeannette Walls
Welcome 1st August and end August by setting goals, saying prayers, and working hard.
“Make your June good, July better, and the month of August best by looking into the eyes of the sun.”
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day.”- John Lubbock
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” ― Nora Ephron
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
It’s the nature of the world. One thing remains, and one gone. Goodbye July and Hello August.
“When the sun is shining, I can do anything.” – Wilma Rudolph
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.” – Walter Winchell
“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time…” ―Taylor Swift
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”- C. Day Lewis
“Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July.” ― Rolf van der Wind
“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
When you enter August, you want some beach days, some relaxing days, and some wife-out-of-town days.
Happy August – remember to take your summer vacation
“Cheers to a new month and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey
Hello, August! Let the summer holiday begin.
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer.” – Natalie Babbitt
Welcome, August! A bounty of beautiful beginnings and neverending blessings.
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” – Raymond Duncan
“August breeze— perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.” ― Meeta Ahluwalia
“The 1st day of August has arrived, and it’s the perfect time to hit the beach.”
Happy August, everyone
“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.” – Jean Hersey
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden
“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
“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
Happy August – I love that I live in a world where there are Augusts
“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” – Sarah Dessen
“It is worth taking the time to stop and contemplate at the beginning of each new month.” – Nadine Locke
“Welcome to the first day of August.”
“August was nearly over. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear.” ―Victor Nekrasov
Entering into the 8th month of the year means the next half of the year is yours.
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”- Regina Brett
“Happy 1st day of August! Time to enjoy this beautiful weather.”
Welcome August!
“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short.” – Ralph Waldo Emmerson
“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer.” – Donald G. Mitchell
Happy August! May the warm days ahead fill you with joy!
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” ― Patricia Briggs
“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year.” – Victoria Erickson
“The object of a new month is not that we should have a new month…we should have a new soul.” — G. K. Chesterton
“Write about winter in the summer.” – Annie Dillard
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hello, August and Goodbye July. Here’s to an exciting, joyful, enjoyable, peaceful, and blessed month.
“Life in summers demands June, July, and August and, in return, wants all your enthusiasm and energy.”
“New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light, and new beginnings.” – April Mae Monterrosa
“The quiet August noon has come; A slumberous silence fills the sky.” ― William Cullen Bryant
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
Happy August!
“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ocean, summer, beach, and barbecues. Welcome August.
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume
“Summer. The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.” ― Cecelia Ahern
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” ―Jenny Han
Welcome August. I’m ready for summer vacation!
“Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” ― Melissa Marr
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.” – Tove Jansson
“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.” ― Sue Monk Kidd
“Take me to that island where people celebrate in the streets in August.” ―Charmaine J. Forde
“I wish you a beautiful new month from the first day of this month to the last day.” – J. K. Rowling
Life is at the beach. All you have to do is find your wave in August.
Welcome to the first day of August
“Welcome to the start of another great month!”
“That August’s here again.” ― Helen Winslow
To all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say… Calm down! It’s August.
“August is a great month in the garden.” ―BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine
“The first day of August is here, which means summer is on its way out.”
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.” – Henry Rollins
“Let this new month bring great miracles, new visions and greater blessings.” – Rajesh Goyal
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.
Goodbye July, and a big hello to August.
“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
Hello August, please be a good month that brings smiles and happiness to our lives.
“It’s always summer somewhere.” – Lily Pulitzer
“Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet.” – Sylvia Plath
Hello, August! Be a month of peace and love.
“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun.” – Mary Oliver
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” ― Kellie Elmore
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.” ― Kellie Elmore
“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies.” – Rasmenia Massoud
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“August used to be a sad month for me.” ―Henry Rollins
Happy people are the best, and August is the month of the happiest people.
“My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August.” – Rick Bass
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”- Hosea Ballou
“Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring.” ―Lauren Oliver
“A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
So welcome August and say goodbye to July, the lovely month of celebrating freedom.
“August depresses me a little.” – Willard Scott
August is filled with the charm of long days and short nights, and in between nothing.
Keep calm and welcome August.
August: The last hot, sweaty month, standing between me and pumpkin season.
Hello August, I know you are going to be a great month for me.
“Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.” ―Ray Bradbury
“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.” ―Henry Rollins
Happy to be welcoming August
“Today is the first day of August which means it’s time to celebrate!”
Welcome August! Nice to see you!
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other.” ―Sarah Dessen
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen
May your month of August be filled with wonderful blessings of good health, love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.
Hello, August! Now, the days are going to be hotter and the nights even longer.
If you’re not barefoot on the beach day in August, then you’re overdressed.
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck
“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.” – Henry David Thoreau
Happy August: time to head to the beach
Welcoming the month of August
Welcoming August one day at a time
Some days are cool while others are hot; August is the month we are talking about.
“It was August, and the fields were high with corn.” ― Melanie Gideon
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Happy August.
“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer.” – Denis Mackail
Welcome August with positive vibes only.
Make your June good, July better, and the month of August best.
“That August time it was delight / To watch the red moons wane to white.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
Welcome August: now go do what you do best.
A new month always brings positive vibes with it and infuse new energetic souls in us.
Hello August, please be kind and less happening. I am not in the mood to go through a lot of excitement this month.
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russell Baker
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” – Swedish Proverb
“The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.” – Garth Brooks
So that is it for our list of Short August Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
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