87 Long Weekend Quotes

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Famous Long Weekend Quotes

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. — Carlos Slim

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. — Richard Nelson Bolles

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

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

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom. — Lauren Oliver

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

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content. — Proverbs

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

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

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. — Elfriede Jelinek

Monday is the key day of the week. — Scottish Proverbs

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

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J. B. Priestley

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime. — Pancho Barnes

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. - John Lubbock

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. — John Lubbock

To some its Hump Day. To us, it's Wednesday's getting its ass kicked and Thursday just asked Friday to switch places. — Dwayne Johnson

Long Week Quotes

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters. — John Bonham

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. — Henny Youngman

If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there? — Jerry Stahl

Long weekend quote It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I don't look like I've been on a week long crack binge with Amy Winehouse. — Triple H

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. — Natalie Babbitt

Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live. — Sayings

Long weekend quote Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.

My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks? — Hermann Goring

You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it. — Rutger Hauer

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. — Robert Breault

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.' — Woodrow Wilson

Weekend Quotes

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise. — Shimon Peres

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters. - Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters. — Albert Brooks

Long weekend quote No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn arou
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me! — Carrie Fisher

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

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach

Long weekend quote I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.
I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison — Ann Wigmore

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. — Anita Roddick

In terms of cultural upbringing, I'd be at the temple at the weekend - I'm a Hindu - but I'd also be at the Saints game as well on a Saturday - you do everything, you do both. — Rishi Sunak

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

Week End Quotes

About a month ago some kids in my neighborhood were playing hide-and-go-seek and one of them ended up in an abandoned refrigerator. It's all anybody talked about for weeks. I said, 'Who cares? How many kids you know get to die a winner? — Anthony Jeselnik

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. - Mark Twain

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. — Mark Twain

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast. — Paul Desmond

Long weekend quote If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen. — Virgil Goode

People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis. — Jeremy Corbyn

The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months. — Harold Wilson

Long weekend quote The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.
The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out. — N. T. Wright

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go. — Seth Godin

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. — Ray Bradbury

Good Weekend Quotes

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

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor. — Leonardo da Vinci

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

Long weekend quote A sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
A sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends. — Viswanathan Anand

Good weather all the week, but come the weekend 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

I mean there's a college kid left in everyone. I bet you, too, if you could go back you would for a night or two, so why not? My brother's still in college, my little brother, so it's always good to go back and get a little glimpse of it and to hang out with him for a weekend or two. — Sayings

Long weekend quote Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective. — Barack Obama

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

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement. — Gretchen Rubin

The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market. — Sayings

Weekend Fun Quotes

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing. — Florence Welch

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it. — Bill Gates

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. — Brandi Chastain

Long weekend quote Not everyone thinks the way you think, know the things you know, believes the things you believe, no
Not everyone thinks the way you think, know the things you know, believes the things you believe, nor acts the way you would act. Remember this and will go a long way in getting along with people.

What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend? — Richelle Mead

I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a weekend in the woods, I'm sorer than after a week at the gym! — Beth Riesgraf

Girls weekend with the 'Vampire Diaries' girls has become a big deal! It's our quality time. It's so much fun to unload and not feel guilty complaining or talking about your insecurities or bonding over things that you thought you were on your own about. — Nina Dobrev

Long weekend quote Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would all go, and it was a lot of fun. We sneak some beer; we'd hang out; we would try to get with girls and not. And usually we'd just end up hanging out together alone. — Seth Rogen

Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave. — Helen Fielding

I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business. — Mike Peters

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat. — Carol Alt

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More Long Weekend Quotes

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea. — Rick Mercer

We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long. — Joe Walsh

What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow. — Robert Kiyosaki

No driving, no sleeping. Live it up like it's the weekend, when the DJ play the right song gonna drink, gonna party all night long — Wiz Khalifa

The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever. — Gordon Brown

One thing I won't be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don't like it, and I haven't bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from shows I'm on. It's much easier. — Scott Baio

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends. — Lois Wyse

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. 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

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides. — Denise Van Outen

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition. — Mark Rydell

A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill. — Po Bronson

I tend to compete every weekend with racing so I'm very busy training for both. The travelling is a lot but I have been living this lifestyle so long now that I am used to it. I am so busy the only proper rest I get is when I'm sitting on the plane. — Liz Halliday

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music. — Rodney Crowell

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again. — Ray Nagin

Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage — Sayings

I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested. — Zach Braff

There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir — Michael Lewis

We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us. — Alex Ferguson

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug? — Cecelia Ahern

Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise me for my "all lowlifes, all the time" seduction policy. I wanted to come home and tell someone about my day. I wanted to go out dancing on the weekends. I wanted to take vacations together. I wanted someone to hold me when I was upset, when the ups and downs of the world pushed me too far. I wanted someone to love. — Richelle Mead

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