# Friday

Friday is the day after Thursday which precedes Saturday. In countries adopting Monday-first conventions as recommended by the international standard ISO 8601, it is the fifth day of the week. It is the sixth day in countries that adopt a Sunday-first convention, as in the Abrahamic tradition. In other countries (see workweek and weekend), Friday is the first day of the weekend, with Saturday the second. In Afghanistan and Iran, Friday is the last day of the weekend, with Saturday as the first day of the working week. Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), and Kuwait also followed this convention until they changed to a Friday–Saturday weekend, on September first, 2006 in Bahrain and the U.A.E., and a year later in Kuwait. In Iran, Friday is the only weekend day. In Saudi Arabia and the Maldives, there are two weekends where Friday is the first weekend of the week while Saturday is the second weekend.

## Quotes

* FRIDAY. The dies infaustus, on which old seamen were desirous of not getting under weigh, as ill-omened.
** Admiral William Henry Smyth, The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, But Useful to Ceamen; As Well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, Etc. (revised for the press by Vice-Admiral Sir E. Belcher; London: Blackie and Son, Peternoster Row, 1867), p. 324.
* III – A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns).
** The Five Commandments (The Pentabarf), Principia Discordia.
* For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while.
** Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (2002).
* On Friday night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Down there, somebody knows.
** Rorschach in his journal, in "At Midnight, All the Agents…," ch. 1 of Alan Moore's Watchmen (1986–1987).
* 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.
* Sun's going down. … What day is today? Friday? It is Friday, isn't it? … What's the matter with you? You should be preparing for the Sabbath, shouldn't you? I've got some wine in my office. Come.
** Oskar Schindler as portrayed by Liam Neeson in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (20 November 1993), based on the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, which in turn was about a real German, Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

### Lyrics

* Friday's child is loving and giving
** "Monday's Child," first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire vol. II (1838), pp. 287–288).
* It's Friday morning, where the weed at?
** Cypress Hill, "Roll It Up, Light It Up, Smoke It Up," Friday: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (11 April 1995), tr. 5.
* We get crazy every Friday night Drop it like it's hot in the pale moonlight Grand Ole Opry, feelin' all right Mary's swayin' softly to her heart's delight
** Lana Del Rey, "Body Electric," Paradise (9 November 2012), tr. 4.
* Friday, we prayed it all better
** Aretha Franklin, "Good News," So Damn Happy (September 2003), tr. 10.
* By Friday life has killed me
** Morrissey, "I Have Forgiven Jesus," You Are the Quarry (17 May 2004), tr. 3.
* Friday night and I need a fight
** Mötley Crüe, "Girls, Girls, Girls," Girls, Girls, Girls (15 May 1987), tr. 2.
* Friday night's such a beautiful night
** Plain White T's, "Making A Memory," Every Second Counts (12 September 2006), tr. 6.
* Five o'clock Friday, all my work is done I can hardly wait Let's take the server, let's sling it around Let's make it taste so sweet
** R.E.M., "A Month of Saturdays," Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 (11 November 2011), disc 2, tr. 17.
* It's Friday, I'm in love
* But Friday never hesitate
** The Cure, "Friday I'm in Love," Wish (11 May 1992), tr. 7.
* Wednesday just don't go Thursday goes too slow I've got Friday on my mind
* Monday I have Friday on my mind
** The Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind," Good Friday (May 1967), tr. 6.
* Friday likes the good life She'll take you for a ride, now
** The Monkees, "Saturday's Child," The Monkees (10 October 1966), tr. 2.

## See also

* Friday the 13th
* Good Friday
* Friday, 1983 novel by Robert Heinlein
* Fridays, 1980–1982 television series
* Friday, 1995 film
* Freaky Friday, 2003 film
* Friday the 13th, film franchise

## External links

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