Add a Dose of Humor to Your Designs With These 47 Funny Quotes

Making someone laugh is an amazing feeling. So is giving someone the perfect gift. Bring both of those special moments together with a card or a gift that evokes sentimental memories while also offering a good dose of humor. Whether it’s a card, photo book, or calendar, combining favorite photos with funny quotes is a wonderful way to customize a Mixbook creation. Your own personal quips and inside jokes might be a fitting choice, but you can also look to history’s greatest humorists, writers, and comedians for inspiration. Consider some of the following 47 funny, inspirational quotes that are sure to put a smile on someone’s face.

Funny Quotes About Life

Finding profound quotes to sum up life as a whole is a tall order, but it turns out some of the best are also the funniest. These funny quotes about life offer an amusing, often silly perspective on the seriousness of human existence. Hey, maybe the meaning of life is just to laugh?!

• “I’d like to live like a poor man – only with lots of money.” – Pablo Picasso
• “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
• “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” – Isaac Asimov
• “‘Fries or salad?’ sums up every adult decision you have to make.” – Aparna Nancherla
• “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” – Redd Foxx
• “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.” – Bryan White

Funny Quotes About Love

You know that oft-quoted Bible verse that goes, “Love is patient, love is kind…”? They forgot one thing: Love is funny! These funny love quotes are all good choices for adding some wit to the romantic gesture of sending Valentine’s Day cards or creating personalized gifts for your spouse.

• “It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” – Lucille Ball
• “Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valery
• “I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?” – Jean Illsley Clarke
• “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet service to see who they really are.” – Will Ferrell
• “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
• “Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.” – Richard Jeni
• “If you love ’em in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love ’em at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.” – Miles Davis
• “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal

Inspirational Funny Quotes

In the words of great comedians, humor and true inspiration can be one and the same. Borrow some of these funny inspirational quotes to brighten someone’s day.

• “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.” – George Carlin
• “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney J. Harris
• “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” – W. C. Fields
• “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

Funny Family Quotes

If your family loves to share a laugh together, you’re about as lucky as can be. Celebrate that shared sense of humor by including some funny family quotes on birthday cards, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day gifts, or to remember the hilarity that ensued when you tried to do that holiday photo shoot.

• “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” – Jerry Seinfeld
• “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller
• “When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.” – Rodney Dangerfield
• “Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.” – Sam Levenson
• “As a child, my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” – Buddy Hackett
• “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
• “Never have more children than you have car windows.” – Erma Bombeck

Funny Best Friend Quotes

These funny best friend quotes prove that a shared sense of humor is key to a lasting, loving friendship.

• “Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” – Greg Tamblyn
• “My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.” – Garry Shandling
• “Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.” – W.H. Auden
• “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” – Jay McInerney
• “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’” – Cookie Monster

Funny Quotes for Graduation

A loved one’s graduation is probably the number one milestone that finds you scrambling for appropriate quotes. Graduates are typically bombarded with serious life lessons, so why not lighten things up with some funny, inspirational quotes? Include them on graduation cards, yearbooks, and other graduation gifts.

• “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
• “Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion." – Tina Fey
• “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama
• “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” – Dennis Wholey
• “Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.” – David Letterman
• “The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
• “To those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be President of the United States.” – George W. Bush
• “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok

Silly Funny Quotes

Sometimes you want to make a photo book just for fun, with no particular theme or message. Sometimes you need a caption for a photo that’s just plain silly. How about one of these random funny quotes?

• “I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
• “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares?… He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!” – Billy Connolly
• “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” – Mark Twain
• “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

Ready to Make ‘em Laugh?

Charlie Chaplin said, “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

Does that mean a custom card or photo book without a funny quote is a wasted opportunity to make someone smile?

Head over to Mixbook.com to start making your custom photo gift, and don’t forget to include a funny quote or two!