It's almost Summer! Time to find out what my friends with swimming pools have been up to since last summer...
“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
“Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.”
–Frank Tyger
“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!”
― Catherine Pulsifer
“The most obnoxious thing in the world is to listen to others drone on about how much they love the heat.”
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan
If I don’t make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!”
― April Mae Monterrosa
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett
“Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.”
– Doug Larson
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
-Russell Baker
“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
Summer should get a speeding ticket
"Taking a dog named Shark to the beach is a bad idea"
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
– Mark Twain
"Went outside today. Very hot. There were bugs. Zero stars, would not recommend"
"Summer- the time when parents realize how underpaid teachers actually are"
“Summer vacation: where you drink triple, see double and act single.”
“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
- Anne Fadiman
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer
“The average vacation is one-tenth playing—nine-tenths paying.”
–Arnold Glasow
“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
"Pollen- when flowers can't keep it in their plants"
“July is a blind date with summer.”
– Hal Borland
“Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing."
– Virginia Woolf
"I can't wait to start blaming my normal lack of productivity on it being summer"
“I’m glad it’s finally hot enough to complain about how hot it is.”
“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
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"I like swimming in a sun shirt. People always look at me like I fell in the pool"
– Jim Gaffigan
“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
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Summer does mean no school for my children. Hey, who doesn’t deserve a three-month break after a rigorous year of kindergarten?"
– Jim Gaffigan
“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
– Nora Ephron
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
-Walter Winchell
"I don't tan. I burn"
"The only b.s I need is bikini and sandals"
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
“If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?"
– Steven Wright
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
- Steve Martin
“Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable.”-
Tom Hodgkinson
“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
"It's unsticking-your-thighs-from-a-plastic-chair season"
Summer is like the ultimate one-night stand...hot as hell, totally thrilling, and gone before you know it.
"I'm happier than a seagull with a french fry"
“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
"I need summer to be longer so I have more time to do nothing"
"Thirty ways to shape up for summer. Number one: eat less. Number two: exercise more. Number three: what was I talking about again? I’m so hungry"
– Maria Bamford
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
— Katie Lee
“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’”
– Robin Williams