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Weekend Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
Bill Watterson

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley

There aren’t enough days in the weekend.
Rod Schmidt

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck Palahniuk

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn’t go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn’t particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.
Caroline Corr

People care about my personal life. But really I’m dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!
Sophia Bush

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did – played records.
Dick Van Dyke

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don’t receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.
Ishmael Reed

The other two things are… well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
Ewan McGregor

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I’d be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
Vin Diesel

There’s a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.
Tommy Rettig

Unless it’s an emergency, don’t bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.
Merv Griffin

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley

Whenever I date a guy, I think, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?’
Rita Rudner

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
Bill Watterson

When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school – but I’d take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
William Bell

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Richard Rorty

Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.
Dule Hill

I’m more into beats than rhymes. I’m a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I’m always drawn to girls with rhythm.
David Gallagher

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.
Nancy Johnson

Why wait for the weekend to have fun
Loesje

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Marilyn vos Savant

I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district.
Greg Walden

For me, college wasn’t a breeze. I had 8 o’clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I’d troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!
Henry Fonda

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.
Daniel Nathans

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.
Rene Rivkin

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
Clive Cussler

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
Robert Parker

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert Redford

Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I’ve spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.
Greg Norman

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
Michael Baden

I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.
Burt Ward

On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I’d go back to school for the week.
Carrot Top

My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is – well, our daughter and our son – is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they’re home in the summer, although they have jobs.
Erika Slezak

Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Rita Rudner

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Anthony Burgess

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.
Rene Rivkin

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Richard Nelson Bolles

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison

Because our daughters have school and it’s just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of… Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.
Kim Gordon

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.
Ogden Nash

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
Casey Stengel

Of all the days that’s in the week
I dearly love but one day
And that’s the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
Henry Carey

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
Jean Rhys

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
Jack Steinberger

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they’re three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.
Rodney Marsh

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
Zenna Scha

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends.
Arnot Sheppard

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Richard Rorty

How pleasant is Saturday night,
When I’ve tried all the week to be good,
And not spoke a word that was bad,
And obliged everyone that I could.
Nancy Sproat

Weekends don’t pay as well as weekdays but at least there’s football.
S.A. Sachs

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind’s untidy. You’ve had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You’re sunk from a riot of relaxation.
Ogden Nash

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
Ed Howe

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