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Your Quotes for 21 June 2005 - Summer

The June Solstice takes place today at 06:46 Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time for us old fogeys): the beginning of summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere, the day with the most sunlight of the whole year. For those of you in the southern hemisphere, take heart: Every day will be longer from here until December.

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.
     - Henry Beston

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
     - Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
     - Ada Louise Huxtable

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
     - William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
     - Aristotle, 384 - 322 BC

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

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