Everything about summer peaks in August, which is why we have put together a list of all the best 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 Hello August Quotes and Sayings
“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year.” – Victoria Erickson
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer.” – Natalie Babbitt
“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.” – Debasish Mridha
Welcome to the first day of August.
“Take me to that island where people celebrate in the streets in August . . . Take me to Barbados.” ―Charmaine J. Forde
“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
When you enter August, you want some beach days, some relaxing days, and some wife-out-of-town days.
“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
Entering into the 8th month of the year means the next half of the year is yours. Welcome August with positive vibes only.
“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
“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
Happy August: time to head to the beach
“Life in summers demands June, July, and August and, in return, wants all your enthusiasm and energy.”
“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
“It’s always summer somewhere.” – Lily Pulitzer
Though Goodbyes are depressing, but Hellos are always pleasing. So welcome August and say goodbye to July, the lovely month of celebrating freedom.
Welcome to the start of another great month!
“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.” – Mary Oliver
“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
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Happy August.
Life is at the beach. All you have to do is find your wave in August.
“Make your June good, July better, and the month of August best by looking into the eyes of the sun.”
“Every summer, my mother would say, ‘Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.’” ―Chris Matthews
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“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
Happy to be welcoming 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
“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
It’s the nature of the world. One thing remains, and one gone. Goodbye July and Hello August.
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath
“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
Welcome August!
“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
Ocean, summer, beach, and barbecues. Welcome August.
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The 1st day of August has arrived, and it’s the perfect time to hit the beach.
“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: The last hot, sweaty month, standing between me and pumpkin season.
Hello, August! Let the summer holiday begin.
“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.” – Natalie Babbitt
Hello August, please be a good month that brings smiles and happiness to our lives.
Some days are cool while others are hot; August is the month we are talking about.
“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
Make your June good, July better, and the month of August best.
Happy August and hello beach!
“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
The first day of August is here, which means summer is on its way out.
“August is the month of the high-sailing hawks.” – John Burroughs
“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
“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
Welcoming the month of August
Happy August – remember to take your summer vacation
“Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.” – Henry Rollins
Welcome to the first day of August
Happy August! May the warm days ahead fill you with joy!
If you’re not barefoot on the beach day in August, then you’re overdressed.
“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov
Enjoy your 1st day of August.
Hello August, I know you are going to be a great month for me.
“It was August, and the fields were high with corn.” ― Melanie Gideon
“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away in a moment of time…” – Taylor Swift
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – W
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume
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 brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.” ―Henry Rollins
Hello, August and Goodbye July. Here’s to an exciting, joyful, enjoyable, peaceful, and blessed month.
“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
Hello, August! Now, the days are going to be hotter and the nights even longer.
Happy August!
“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
Welcome August: now go do what you do best
May your month of August be filled with wonderful blessings of good health, love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.
Welcome 1st August and end August by setting goals, saying prayers, and working hard.
Happy August – I love that I live in a world where there are Augusts
“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
“August breeze— perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.” ― Meeta Ahluwalia
“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
A new month always brings positive vibes with it and infuse new energetic souls in us.
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.” – Henry Rollins
Welcoming August one day at a time
“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
Welcome, August! A bounty of beautiful beginnings and neverending blessings. Hey, you, the reader, may your all dreams come true this month.
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
Goodbye July, and a big hello to August.
“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
Welcome August. I’m ready for summer vacation!
“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
Happy 1st day of August! Time to enjoy this beautiful weather.
“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
“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
“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent.” – Meka Boyle
“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
Today is the first day of August which means it’s time to celebrate!
“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
Hello, August! Be a month of peace and love.
Good things are going to happen. Welcome, August!
“That August time it was delight / To watch the red moons wane to white.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
To all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say… Calm down! It’s August.
“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
Happy August, everyone
Happy people are the best, and August is the month of the happiest people.
Wishing you the best on your first day of August.
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” – Sarah Dessen
Hello August, please be kind and less happening. I am not in the mood to go through a lot of excitement this month.
Welcome August! Nice to see you!
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden
August is filled with the charm of long days and short nights, and in between nothing.
“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
Keep calm and welcome August.
“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
Goodbye July. It’s a new month with new hope and a new spirit. Hello August! Please, be good to me.
So that is it for our list of August Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
For more great ideas, check out our other lists of End of Summer Quotes, Back to School Quotes and Lake Life Quotes.
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Laynni Deir
I am Laynni Deir, writer and editor of Purely Lists. There are times when you are looking for inspiration or aren’t sure what to say and I am committed to providing lists of the best quotes, sayings, messages, puns or captions for any occasion. Whether you are looking for a positive quote, a message for a card, a fun saying for a letter board or caption for your next post or story, you will find the perfect option here.
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