Days of the Week in Quotes: Friday

Finally, the weekend arrives

Happy Friday! As you finish the last work day of the week, you’re probably thinking about some down time. Today’s quotes are about Fridays and how we feel about clocking out for the weekend.

1. “Friday afternoon feels like heaven.” -El Fuego

2. “If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn’t want me here either.” -James Johnson

3. “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” -S. O’Sade

4. “It’s 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?” -Amy Neftzger

5. “On Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, will power, and inappropriate humor.” -Nanea Hoffman

6. “I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun.” -Hanna Rhoades

7. “It’s always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves…they tend to spill over.” -Parag Tipnis

8. “If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” -Noel Coward

9. “If Friday were a rainbow, it would be a double one.” -Keith Wynn

10. “It’s Friday morning mankind! Good vibe, don’t frown and let the monster see you smile!” -Napz Cherub Pellazo

11. “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” -Kate Summers

12. “When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break; you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” -Catherine Pulsifer

13. “Friday’s a free day. A woman’s day.” -Neil Gaiman

14. “If you’ve got some news that you don’t want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon.” -David Gergen

15. “And on a Friday fell all this mischance.” -Chaucer

16. “Music always sounds better on Friday.” -Lou Brutus

17. “The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.” -Dr. Seuss

18. “Not everyone believes that Friday is unlucky, but nearly everybody agrees it is a waiting day. In business, the week is really over. In school, Friday is the half-open gate to freedom. Friday is neither a holiday nor a workday, but a time of wondering what Saturday will bring.” -John Steinbeck

19. “It’s Friday! Time to go make stories for Monday.” -Anonymous

20. “Friday. The golden child of the weekdays. The superhero of the workweek. The welcome wagon to the weekend.” -Anonymous

21. “Happy Friday! Here’s to all of us who made it through another week of faking adulthood.” -Nanea Hoffman

22. “Finally, Friday! Be easy today! Remember, it’s a job. I know it is how we eat and pay bills and provide health care to our family. But keep it in perspective; get there, do the best job you can, earn your check, and leave it at your desk at 5! Your real life begins when you end the workday. Save your emotional energy for that!” -Faublas

23. “Friday is like a superhero that always arrives just in time to stop me from savagely beating one of my coworkers with a keyboard.” -Rico

24. “Friday fills my day with hope and happiness.” -Anthony T. Hincks

25. “The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Friday, and the Muslims gave Him Saturday. God has a three-day weekend.” -George Carlin

26. “If you decide to go clubbing on a Friday night, and you’re home before two a.m., you’re not a man’s man.” -Frank Vincent

27. “Friday is the spring fever of the week!” -Terri Guillemets

28. “Friday is my second favorite F-word. Food is my first.” -Anonymous

29. “I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too, Thursday I don’t care about you, It’s Friday, I’m in love.” -The Cure

30. “Friday the 13th is still better than Monday the whatever.” -Unknown

31. “It was an ordinary day, a Friday, twenty minutes ’til lunchtime, five hours ’til quitting time and the weekend, ten months ’til vacation, thirty-seven years ’til retirement. Then the phone rang.” -Jack Finney

32. “I haven’t been so excited about Friday since last Friday.” -Unknown

33. “When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” -Edmond Mbiakading

34. “Fridays are the hardest in some ways: You’re so close to freedom.” -Lauren Oliver

35. “Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.” -Karen Kain

36. “Why can’t Daylight Saving Time be used to move the clocks ahead to Friday afternoon around 4:00?” -Internet meme

37. “I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I’ve stopped work and said, ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.” -Helen Mirren

38. “Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.” -Anonymous

39. “I always give 100% at work: 13% Monday, 22% Tuesday, 26% Wednesday, 35% Thursday, 4% Friday.” -Unknown

40. “Fact!: Time goes slower on a Friday afternoon.” -Anthony T. Hincks

41. “Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two-day break from it.” -Robert Black

42. “Honestly, I never really understood the glorification of Fridays and weekends. I don’t want to build a life and career, where I spent five days a week waiting for the weekend. No! I want to enjoy my life, and don’t wish any weekday away. I want each day to matter to me, in some way, even if it’s a small tiny way. I love my life. Every day. That’s the spirit we should convey all around us.” -Akilnathan Logeswaran

43. “It’s finally Friday, I’m free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend.” -George Jones

44. “Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night.” -Dr. Seuss

45. “Life is good, especially on a Friday.” -Anonymous

46. “Without Friday, the weekend would be half over already.” -Anthony T. Hincks

47. “Why is Monday so far away from Friday, but Friday is so close to Monday?” -Unknown

48. “Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana

49. “Weekends welcome warriors for social fun that starts on Friday.” -David Chiles

50. “I look forward to Fridays because I know I have spent the week offering encouragement, solace, assistance, and goodwill to everyone I have met through my journey.” -Byron Pulsifer

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