# Monday

Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the traditional Christian, Islamic, and Hebrew calendars, it is the second day of the week, and according to international standard ISO 8601 it is the first day of the week. In the West, it is the first day of the work week, whereas in most Muslim countries and Israel, it is the second day of the work week. The name of Monday is derived from Old English Mōnandæg and Middle English Monenday, which means "moon day".

## Quotes

* It's fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
** Guy Montag to Clarisse McClellan in "The Hearth and the Salamander," Pt. 1 of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), p. 6.
** In the 1966 François Truffaut film based on the book, Montag (Oskar Werner)'s line is:
*** What? Well, it's a job like any other. Good work, with lots of variety—Monday we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman; Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes, and then burn the ashes—that's our official motto.
* Barry: Here's the thing: I made that tape special for today—my special Monday morning tape for you—special. Rob Gordon: Well it's fuckin' Monday afternoon, you should get out of bed earlier!
** High Fidelity (31 March 2000), based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Nick Hornby.
* In all possible universes, Monday was the same.
** Philip K. Dick, ch. 9 of Eye in the Sky (1957), p. 119.

### Lyrics

* Monday's child is fair of face
** "Monday's Child," first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire vol. II (1838), pp. 287–288).
* Monday, we held it together
** Aretha Franklin, "Good News," So Damn Happy (September 2003), tr. 10.
* Just leave me alone I've got those Monday blues Straight through Sunday blues
** Billie Holiday, "Good Morning Heartache" (22 January 1946).
* But then, a Monday morning quarterback never lost a game
** Frank Sinatra, "Monday Morning Quarterback," She Shot Me Down (November 1981), tr. 6.
* Monday, back from the dead I'm letting it go, back for another one
* Monday's gone Tuesday's fadin' Wednesday's gone Thursday's all but wasted now
** Stone Temple Pilots, "Days of the Week," Shangri-La Dee Da (19 June 2001), tr. 2.
* It's just another manic Monday I wish it were Sunday 'Cause that's my fun day My I-don't-have-to-run day It's just another manic Monday
** The Bangles, "Manic Monday," Different Light (January 1986), tr. 1.
* Tell me why I don't like Mondays
** The Boomtown Rats, "I Don't Like Mondays," The Fine Art of Surfacing (9 October 1979), tr. 7.
* Rainy days and Mondays always get me down
** The Carpenters, "Rainy Days and Mondays," Carpenters (14 May 1971), tr. 1.
* Oh, Monday morning, the cracks become quite clear Oh, Monday morning, take me back, leave me here
** The Church, "Monday Morning," Gold Afternoon Fix (22 February 1990), tr. 5.
* I don't care if Monday's blue
* Monday you can fall apart
* I don't care if Monday's black
* Monday you can hold your head
** The Cure, "Friday I'm in Love," Wish (11 May 1992), tr. 7.
* Monday morning feels so bad Everybody seems to nag me
* Monday I have Friday on my mind
** The Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind," Good Friday (May 1967), tr. 6.
* Monday, Monday, so good to me
* Monday, Monday, can't trust that day
* But whenever Monday comes You can find me crying all of the time
* Oh, Monday, Monday, won't go away Monday, Monday, it's here to stay
** The Mamas & the Papas, "Monday, Monday," If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (March 1966), tr. 1.
* Monday had a sad child Always feeling low down
** The Monkees, "Saturday's Child," The Monkees (10 October 1966), tr. 2.
* Monday, Tuesday is my weekend
** The Strokes, "Taken for a Fool," Angles (18 March 2011), tr. 5.

### Quotes from Office Space (1999)

    Peter Gibbons: I gotta get outta here. I think I'm gonna lose it.
    Female Temp: Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.
    Brian [Chotchkie's waiter]: So can I get you gentlemen something more to drink? Or maybe something to nibble on? Some Pizza Shooters, Shrimp Poppers, or Extreme Fajitas?
    Peter: Just coffee.
    Brian: Okay. Sounds like a case of the Mondays.
    Peter: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?"
    Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

## See also

* Black Monday
* WCW Monday Nitro
* "Monday," dinnerladies (S1E1, 12 November 1998)
* "Monday," The X-Files (S6E14, 28 February 1999)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Monday on Wikipedia
* The dictionary definition of Monday on Wiktionary
* Media related to Monday on Wikimedia Commons
* Days of the week
* Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday