Friday Quotes

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

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.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.

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

I've heard of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But I've never heard of Someday.

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.

Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.

Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.