100+ Hilariously Funny Quotes About Life Lessons

In this post, discover over 100 funny quotes about life lessons to brighten your day and help you see the irony in many of life’s moments. Laughing is a great way to reduce stress, overcome tough situations and put things into perspective.

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And let’s face it; we’ve all been there: moments where life decides to teach us a lesson, and instead of wisdom, all we get is a laugh (and maybe a bruise or two) like walking into a glass door, tripping in front of everyone at a party or having a piece of spinach in between your teeth without knowing it. 😆

Laughing At Yourself Is a Good Thing

This collection of 100+ funny quotes I gathered about life lessons will remind you that even when things go wrong, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a good chuckle along the way.

Our reactions often make and break us, so adding some humour (when appropriate, of course) may make a bad situation a little better. At the very least, it boosts our mood and helps relieve stress, which are both great reasons to laugh a little more! (1)

100+ Funny Quotes About Life Lessons

They are sectioned into five categories so you can find the specific quotes you’re looking for quickly:

Funniest Quotes About Life Lessons
Short Funny Quotes About Life
Funny Inspirational Quotes About Life
Sarcastic Quotes About Life Lessons
Funny When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes

Funniest Quotes About Life Lessons

These quotes made me laugh out loud. We all need a witty one-liner now and then to lighten a tricky situation or amuse us during a stressful day.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

My mother always used to say: The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana.

Rose (Betty White), The Golden Girls

Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.

Ellen DeGeneres

I’ll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that’s probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess.

Cassandra Duffy

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Katharine Hepburn

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Linda Grayson

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Oscar Wilde

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

Larry Lorenzoni

I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

More of the Best Funny Quotes…

The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.

Joe Girard

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

Charles M. Schulz

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Bob Hope

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

I never feel more alone than when I’m trying to put sunscreen on my back.

Jimmy Kimmel

Some people are like clouds: when they disappear, it’s a beautiful day.

Unknown

Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.

Ann Bradford

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett

Do not take life so seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

Short Quotes About Life

I love a quick and simple quote to save on my phone or write on my planner. These funny life quotes are short but sweet in the most amusing way possible.

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.

Unknown

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

I’m not lazy, I’m just on energy-saving mode.

Unknown

Whatever you do, always give 100% — unless you’re donating blood.

Bill Murray

If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.

Elvis Presley

The road to success is always under construction.

Lily Tomlin

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!

Marvin Phillips

Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.

Billie Burke

I’m in shape. Round is a shape.

George Carlin

Bad decisions make good stories.

Ellis Vidler

If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.

Judith Martin

Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.

Unknown

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Robin Williams

Be happy, it drives people crazy.

Paulo Coelho

Aspire to inspire before we expire.

Eugene Bell Jr.

Falling flat on your face is a step forward!

Unknown

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.

Oscar Wilde

I need a six-month vacation twice a year.

Unknown

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

Steven Wright

Think like a proton. Always Happy.

Unknown

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

Life is a lot like jazz…it’s best when you improvise.

George Gershwin

Funny Inspirational Quotes About Life

Who says funny things can’t also be inspirational and motivating? These hilarious quotes about life below will not only make you laugh but also make you think about tough times or challenges in your life in a different way.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

Will Rogers

Life is like a camera, focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.

Unknown

Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

To succeed in life, you need a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Reba McEntire

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison

The most wasted of days is one without laughter.

E.E.Cummings

I find television very educational. Everytime someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Willy Wonka

My mother always used to say, ‘The older you get the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.’

Rose Nylund

Inspirational Funny Quotes Continued…

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

I think it’s great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That’s the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

Priyanka Chopra

There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

Amy Poehler

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.

George Carlin

Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life is a book, and if the plot gets too serious, it’s time to throw in a few comic relief chapters. Spoiler alert: laughter improves the ending.

Unknown

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Will Rogers

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer

In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

That it will never happen again is what makes life sweet.

Emily Dickinson

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

John Lennon

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Sarcastic Quotes About Life Lessons

For those who love a sarcastic quip here and there, these funny quotes about life lessons are the perfect remedy for a tough day.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Phyllis Diller

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

A. A. Milne

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat’.

Steven Wright

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Albert Einstein

I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.

Mitch Hedberg

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Malcolm Forbes

I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?

Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), Friends

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

Mindy Kaling

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”

Edward Bergen

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everybody else.

Margaret Mead

More Sarcastic Quotes…

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Ogden Nash

I’m sorry I hurt your feelings when I called you stupid. I thought you knew everything.

Anonymous

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

I generally avoid temptation until I can’t resist it.

Mae West

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M. Schulz

Dear Monday, I want to break up. I’m seeing Tuesday and dreaming about Friday. It’s not me; it’s you.

Unknown

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired.

Sandra Bullock

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

George Carlin

Trying is the first step toward failure.

Homer Simpson, “The Simpsons”

Friday is my second favourite F-word. Food is the first, obviously.

Unknown

Funny When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes 🍋

I couldn’t resist adding these clever and comical alternatives to the famous “When life gives you lemons” saying.

Life handed me lemons, so I made lemonade, lemon cake, lemon drops, and I even used the rinds to make lemon art. So the joke is on you, life…

Emilyann Allen

When life gives you lemons don’t make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

Wanda Sykes

A genius is a man who takes the lemons that fate hands him and starts a lemonade stand with them.

Elbert Hubbard

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

Napoleon Hill

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

Conan O’Brien

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

Louise Hay

When life gives you lemons, sell them and buy a pineapple.

Davin Turney

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka and have a party.

Ron White

When life gives you lemons, make a lemon detox, and stay away from toxic people.

Aman Mandaiya

When life gives you lemons, use the opportunity to add some zest to your life.

Unknown

When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible.

Grace Helbig

When life gives you lemons… get creative.

Unknown

If life gives you lemons, don’t settle for simply making lemonade — make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

Elizabeth Gilbert

How To Use Funny Life Quotes To Overcome Bad Days

Hopefully, these quotes brought a smile to your face or even made you laugh out loud! I’ve learned that sometimes the beauty of life’s lessons is that while they might sting in the moment, they often become the best stories.

Whenever you feel stressed, frustrated, or overwhelmed, remember that sometimes, a little humour goes a long way.

Use these quotes as a reminder that laughter is often the best way to lighten a situation or bad day. Pin this post so you can laugh at life’s hiccups and turn challenging moments into a chance to smile. ❤️