Funny quotes on life, living, and the pursuit of hilarious. As Mark Twain said, "I have known a great many troubles in my life, most of which never happened." Peruse these at your pleasure, and find the funny side of existence.
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Make a “bucket list” of all the undertakings you wish to undertake before being overtaken by the undertaker.
- Swami Beyondananda (Steve Bhaerman)
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
- Bill Watterson
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
- Joseph Heller, “Catch-22”
If you’re feeling down about your life, just call a starving African kid and explain fabric softener to him.
- Guy Endore-Kaiser
Your life is a mystery story in which you are the butler.
- Mary Wardrop
Life is full of endless pissibility.
- Anonymous
The great blessing of youth is you don't have to wake up in the middle of the night to pee.
- Greg Tamblyn
I can live for two months on one good compliment.
- Mark Twain
God knows life sucks. It’s right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, “I can’t take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me.”
- Bill Maher
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard
It’s a funny old world. A man’s lucky if he gets out of it alive.
- W.C. Fields
Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
- Fran Liebowitz
Sometimes I wonder if my life would be different if I was good at sports or a giant spider.
- Bridger Winegar
When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.
- Ashish Chauhan
Remember, life isn't about accumulating stuff. It's about making people insanely jealous of your stuff.
- Darsh Dhoble
Life has gone from charging ahead to waiting for stuff to recharge.
- Greg Tamblyn
Life just keeps reminding me that I have no idea what I'm doing.
- Kat McSnatch @KatMcSnatch
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
- Stephen Hawking
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.
- Peter De Vries
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
- Frank Zappa
Life is basically trying to meet better people than the ones you currently know.
- Julius Sharpe @juliussharpe
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- James Thurber
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
- Charles M. Schulz
Life is a belly dance on a trampoline aboard the deck of a ship in a storm at sea.
- Greg Tamblyn
Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
- Louis L'Amour
What a wonderful life I’ve had. I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
- Colette
Life is a party: you join after its started and you leave before its finished.
- Elsa Maxwell
Life is far too important a thing to ever talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
- Jack Handey
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
- Isaac Asimov
Life is the song of a mockingbird and the purring of a cat. But sometimes the cat eats the mockingbird. And sometimes the mockingbird poops on the cat.
- Greg Tamblyn
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
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