# Sunday

Sunday (Latin: dies solis meaning "day of the sun") is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday. Sunday is a day of rest in most Western countries and a part of the weekend. In some Middle Eastern countries, Sunday is a weekday.
For most Christians, Sunday is observed as a day of worship and rest, holding it as the Lord's Day and the day of Christ's resurrection; in the United States, Canada, Japan, as well as in parts of South America, Sunday is the first day of the week. According to the Islamic calendar, Hebrew calendar and traditional calendars (including Christian calendars) Sunday is the first day of the week; Quaker Christians call Sunday the "first day" in accordance with their testimony of simplicity. The International Organization for Standardization ISO 8601, which is based in Switzerland, calls Sunday the seventh day of the week.

## Quotes

* Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
** Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 112 (9 July 1711)
* The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
** Georg Büchner, The Hessian Courier (1834)
* What produced this divine serenity, subject to no moods, clouded by no depression, this perpetual Sunday of the heart? It was not merely good nature, not the accident of a happy organization. It was deeper than that. It was the perfect poise resulting from a Christian experience. It was the habit of looking to God in love and to man in love.
** James Freeman Clarke, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 477
* It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
** Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856), Pt. II, recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
* Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
** Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky (1943)
** Paraphrased variant: Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
* He is as loving and tender as a child, but strong and sturdy as a rock. When on Sundays I ride him through the lanes in the outskirts of the town, slow-moving countrymen, dressed in their Sunday clean, watch him a while, speculatively: "He is like steel," they say. Steel, yes. Steel and moon silver at the same time.
** Juan Ramón Jiménez, ‪Platero and I‬ (1917), Ch. 1 : Platero, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957)
* Uncle Vernon: Fine day Sunday. In my opinion, best day of the week. Why is that, Dudley? Harry: [when Dudley doesn't answer] Because there’s no post on Sundays? Uncle Vernon: Right you are, Harry! No post on Sundays. Hah!
** Steve Kloves, screenplay, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), based on the book by J.K. Rowling
* Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.
** Rose Wilder Lane, Old Home Town (1935), Ch. 1
* Complete freedom meant — no one knew. It was most readily defined in the negative: not this gap between the heaven promised in the new advertisements and the everyday satisfactions I can buy. Not the sense that when I leave my work for my family, and bring my family to a Sunday in the park, my leisure feels like work.
** Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), pp. 147–148
* 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.
** Montag (played by Oskar Werner) in François Truffaut's film adaptation Fahrenheit 451 (16 September 1966), based on the 1953 novel of the same title by Ray Bradbury.
** In the original book, Guy Montag says to Clarisse McClellan:
*** It's fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
**** "The Hearth and the Salamander," Pt. 1 of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), p. 6
* They tell me every day is there Not more nor less than Sunday gay; In shining robes and garments fair The people walk upon their way. One gazes there on castle walls As grand as those of Babylon, A bishop and two generals! What joy to be in Carcassonne! Ah! might I but see Carcassonne!
** Gustave Nadaud, Carcassonne, (c. 1887, with translation by John Reuben Thompson), Stanza 3
* Years and years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.
** Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1954) p. 11
* Some write, confin'd by physic; some, by debt; Some, for 'tis Sunday; some, because 'tis wet; Another writes because his father writ, And proves himself a bastard by his wit.
** Edward Young, Epistles to Mr. Pope (1830), Epistle I, line 75

### The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904)

    Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 231.
* I do not think there can be the smallest doubt that to sit judicially on Sunday on any business would be indecent and improper, and ought never to be done if it can be helped.
** Blackburn, J., Winsor v. The Queen (1866), L. R. 1 Q. B. D. 317
* It would hardly be decent to adjourn the Court to Sunday.
** Cockburn, C.J., Reg. v. Charlotte Winsor (1866), 10 Cox, C. C. 298
* It is laid down in distinct terms by high authority, that of Lord Coke and Comyns, that Sunday is not a juridical day.
** Cockburn, C.J., Winsor v. The Queen (1866), L. R. 1 Q. B. D. 308
* Working days in England are not the same as working days in foreign ports, because working days in England, by the custom and habits of the English, if not by their law, do not include Sundays.
** William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, M.R., Nielsen v. Wait (1885), L. R. 16 Q. B. 71
* Anciently, the Courts of justice did sit on Sundays.
** Lord Mansfield, Swann v. Broome (1764), 3 Burr. Part IV., p. 1597

### Lyrics

* But the child who is born on the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good in every way.
** "Monday's Child," first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire vol. II (1838), pp. 287–288)
** The song lists each day of the week by name save for Sunday, which it lists simply as the Sabbath day.
* And Sunday, we heard the good news
** 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)
* My Saturday Never Sunday And a moat, a fall of thee
* My Saturday Never Sunday And a moat, a bite, a lee
* It's a heartbeat Never Sunday And it looks okay to me
** Melvins, "City Dump," Tres Cabrones (5 November 2013), 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
* Saturday wait, and Sunday always comes too late
** The Cure, "Friday I'm in Love," Wish (11 May 1992), tr. 7
* And Sunday makes a good wife She wants to be your bride
** The Monkees, "Saturday's Child," The Monkees (10 October 1966), tr. 2
* Everyday is like Sunday Every day is silent and grey
** "Everyday Is Like Sunday" by Morrissey, 1988

## See also

* Sunday school

## External links

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