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19 June 2009 3:45 PM

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Ideas about The Weekend

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

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. - Doug Larson

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. - Woody Allen

Keep Holy the Sabbath. -- God

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

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

My life ain't heaven/but it sure ain't hell./I'm not on top/but I call it swell/if I'm able to work/and get paid right/and have the luck to be Black/on a Saturday night. - Maya Angelou

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids? -- Louise Lague

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Comments (1)

Terrific collection. I'd be interested to a slate of the same regardng Monday mornings, but not yet, of course.

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