140 Funny Quotes for Nearly Any Situation (So You Always Have the Perfect One)

Funny quotes are the perfect thing to send to your bestie or write in a birthday card. Yes, they’re going to make you and the person you shared it with laugh, but funny one-liners from writers like Oscar Wilde or famous actors like Katherine Hepburn stick with you.

They remind you how witty and hilarious these people were.

And if you’ve already filled up your humor arsenal with dad jokes, funny quips, corny puns, and knock-knock jokes, then these funny lines are the perfect thing to add.

Some of these funny quotes are goofy, some are so bad they’re good, and some will make you think, “I wish I came up with that myself.”

So if you know a friend who needs a good chuckle, you’re looking for a funny caption, you need to add humor into a speech, or you wanna be inspired while laughing, then these entertaining sayings have exactly what you need.

Grab a few of the funny sayings below, enjoy a good laugh, and pass it on.

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For Sharing & Social

• Funny Quotes for Instagram Captions
• Very Short Funny Quotes That Hit Different
• Funny Quotes to Text a Friend Who Needs a Laugh
• Funny Work Quotes for Your Email Signature
• Funny Movie Quotes for When Making a Good Reference Is Needed

For Occasions & Situations

• Funny Quotes for a Speech or Toast
• Funny Quotes for a Birthday Card
• Funny Inspirational Quotes (When You Need Motivation But Make It Funny)
• Funny Quotes About Life So You Can Just Laugh It Off

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Funny Quotes for Instagram Captions

• “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” — A.A. Milne
• “I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me four days, but whatever.” — Unknown
• “I am not lazy. I am on energy-saving mode.” — Anonymous
• “My alone time is sometimes for your safety.” — Unknown
• “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde
• “I put the ‘pro’ in procrastinate.” — Anonymous
• “I need a six-month vacation twice a year.” — Pete Macarthur
• “Behind every great person is a substantial amount of coffee.” — Unknown
• “Some days I amaze myself. Other days I put my keys in the fridge.” — Unknown

• “Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.” — Mallory Hopkins
• “Currently accepting applications for someone to bring me food and tell me I’m pretty.” — Unknown
• “I’m not arguing. I’m just explaining why I’m right.” — Unknown
• “Doing nothing is very hard to do. You never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
• “I’m on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it.” — Unknown
• “Sorry for the things I said when I was hungry.” — Unknown
• “I’m not high maintenance, you’re just low effort.” — Unknown
• “My patience is like my phone battery; it runs out fast and needs constant recharging.” — Unknown
• “Stressed, blessed, and coffee obsessed.” — Unknown

Very Short Funny Quotes That Hit Different

• “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• “Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” — Robin Williams
• “If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.” — Judith Martin
• “I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.” — Maybe Christopher Hampton 
• “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” — Fran Lebowitz
• “Always borrow money from a pessimist. They won’t expect it back.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” — Miles Kington

• “My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I forgot to do.” — Unknown
• “I’m not a morning person. I’m not even an afternoon person. I pretty much start functioning after 6 PM.” — Unknown
• “Change is good, but dollars are better.” — Jill Shalvis
• “I went to Target the other day, but I missed.” — Mitch Hedberg
• “If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong.” — Unknown
• “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
• “Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else.” — Margaret Mead

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Funny Quotes to Text a Friend Who Needs a Laugh

• “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” — Earl Wilson
• “Friends come and go like waves of the ocean, but the true ones stick, like an octopus on your face.” — Unknown
• “I don’t need a psychiatrist to prod into my personal life and make me tell them all my secrets. I have my friends for that.” — Anonymous
• “We’ve been friends for so long I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence.” — Anonymous
• “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
• “When nothing goes right, go left.” — Kristin Hansen
• “Reality continues to ruin my life.” — Bill Watterson

• “I’m not sure how many problems I have because math is one of them.” — Unknown
• “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin
• “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
• “I am an early bird and a night owl, so I am wise and I have worms.” — Michael Scott
• “I’m not clumsy. The floor just hates me, the table and chairs are bullies, and the walls get in my way.” — Anonymous
• “Never miss a good chance to shut up.” — Will Rogers
• “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” — Terry Pratchett
• “I spilled spot-remover on my dog, then he disappeared.” — Steven Wright

Funny Work Quotes for Your Email Signature

• “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
• “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
• “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vince Lombardi 
• “The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and doesn’t stop until you get into the office.” — Robert Frost
• “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” — Robert Orben
• “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome

• “I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend than be one.” — Clarence Darrow
• “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain
• “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar
• “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
• “I’m a man of my word… and that word is unreliable.” — Unknown
• “The reward for good work is more work.” — Tom Sachs

Funny Movie Quotes for When Making a Good Reference Is Needed

• “Why so serious?” — The Dark Knight
• “That’s not flying, that’s falling with style.” — Toy Story
• “As if!” — Clueless
• “Just keep swimming.” — Finding Nemo
• “Help is on the way, dear!” — Mrs. Doubtfire
• “Maybe I don’t want to be the bad guy anymore.” — Megamind

• “I see you’re drinking 1%. Is that ‘cause you think you’re fat? ‘Cause you’re not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.” — Napoleon Dynamite
• “You are a sad, strange little man. And you have my pity.” — Toy Story
• “Keep the change, ya filthy animal.” — Home Alone
• “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” — The Incredibles
• “Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!” — Monsters, Inc.
• “I volunteer as tribute!” — The Hunger Games
• “To infinity and beyond!” — Toy Story

For Occasions & Situations

Funny Quotes for a Speech or Toast

• “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” — Socrates
• “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
• “Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.” — Jack Handy
• “The secret of a good speech is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.” — George Burns
• “We are all here on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I don’t know.” — W.H. Auden
• “May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.” — Irish Blessing

• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
• “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Behind every successful person is a substantial amount of coffee.” — Unknown
• “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” — Groucho Marx
• “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” — Ogden Nash
• “A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.” — Unknown
• “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” — C.S. Lewis
• “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” — Mignon McLaughlin

Funny Quotes for a Birthday Card

• “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” — Bob Hope
• “The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.” — Betty White
• “Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese.” — Luis Buñuel
• “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” — Lucille Ball
• “You’re not 40, you’re 18 with 22 years of experience.” — Unknown
• “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” — Chili Davis
• “At my age, flowers scare me.” — George Burns
• “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” — Golda Meir
• “You’re only as old as you feel — so stop feeling so old.” — Unknown
• “I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.” — Bob Hope

• “A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.” — Anonymous
• “Forget the past, you can’t change it. Forget the present, I didn’t get you one.” — Unknown
• “You’re not old, you’re vintage.” — Unknown
• “Getting older is just nature’s way of showing us what we’re made of. Apparently, I’m made of complaining and naps.” — Unknown
• “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” — Larry Lorenzoni
• “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.” — Ogden Nash
• “Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you.” — Anonymous

Funny Inspirational Quotes (When You Need Motivation But Make It Funny)

• “If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.” — Steven Wright
• “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
• “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
• “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London
• “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison
• “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” — Phyllis Diller
• “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — Dalai Lama XIV
• “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles M. Schulz

• “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
• “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers
• “I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.” — Jerry Seinfeld
• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Doubt yourself and you’re probably still halfway there, just anxious about it.” — Unknown
• “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” — Robert Benchley
• “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
• “Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door.” — Kyle Chandler

Funny Quotes About Life So You Can Just Laugh It Off

• “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” — Allen Saunders
• “I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” — Steven Wright
• “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” — Bill Watterson
• “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” — Sydney J. Harris
• “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” — Douglas Adams
• “I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.” — Steven Wright
• “If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.” — Groucho Marx
• “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde

• “I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” — Charles M. Schulz
• “Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is that you’re stupid and make bad decisions.” — Unknown
• “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” — Steven Wright
• “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” — Cathy Guisewite
• “The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.” — Robert Bloch
• “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” — Oscar Wilde
• “I used to think I was a night owl, but it turns out I’m just someone who procrastinates sleep.” — Unknown

• “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” — Katharine Hepburn
• “I don’t need anger management. I need people to stop making me angry.” — Anonymous
• “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” — Reba McEntire
• “Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.” — Kyla Stone
• “The road to success is always under construction.” — Lily Tomlin
• “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” — Mark Twain