It’s time to smile and laugh! We all need a dose of happiness from time to time. If you’re feeling down, stressed or blue, we’ve got a bunch of short funny happy quotes that will lift your spirits and put a smile on your face. We think that when it comes to happiness quotes, funny ones are the best.
Make your friends and loved ones smile and laugh with these funny happy sayings.
Short Funny Happy Quotes
“I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.” ― David Henry Hwang
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” ― Dennis Waitley
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” ― Albert Einstein
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” — Mark Twain
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” — Douglas Adams
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” ― Phyllis Diller
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.” ― Charles Gordy
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” ― Friedrich Schiller
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” ― Woody Allen
“The only time I feel light-hearted is when I’m in a plane at 33,000 feet.” ― Robert Rivers
“Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys
“You can’t shine like a diamond, if you not willing to get cut like a diamond!” ― Eric Thomas
“Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.” ― Frank Moore Colby
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” ― Confucius
“There are three ways in life to become popular: be rich, be beautiful, or be funny.” ― Jon Macks
“It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them.” ― Rose MacAulay
“Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.” ― A.D. Posey
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” ― Mark Twain
“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” ― Bernard Meltzer
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” ― Robert Frost
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ― Rita Mae Brown
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.” ― Andre Gide
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” ― Oscar Wilde
“The secret to enjoying true happiness is to admire without desiring.” ― Carl Sandburg
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.” ― Gertrude Stein
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” ― John Barrymore
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.” ― Bertolt Brecht
“It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.” ― Kin Hubbard
“Do you know that when what we are is what we want to be, that is true happiness.” ― Malcolm Forbes
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” ― Richard Bach
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn
“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.” ― Groucho Marx
“Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.” ― Deepak Chopra
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ― Guillaume Apollinaire
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” ― Charlie Chaplin
“A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.” ― Bil Keane
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” ― A. A. Milne
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” ― Henny Youngman
“Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy forever.” ― Swami Sivananda
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.” ― Don Marquis
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” ― Charles Lamb
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ― Will Rogers
“The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.” ― Robert Green Ingersoll
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” ― Albert Camus
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Funny Happiness Quotes
“Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman (person) who is happy to be herself.” ― Kubra Sait
“I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.” ― Anne Wilson Schaef
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” ― Will Ferrell
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” ― Stephen Chbosky
“Most times, we forget to be grateful to people who make us happy. Don’t forget, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” ― David Lee Roth
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” ― Alexandre Dumas
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” ― Mary Stuart
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” ― Cathy Guisewite
“If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.” ― Chinese Proverb
“Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.” ― William Goldman
“Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.” ― Charles M. Schulz
“You can’t experience simple joys when you’re living life with your hair on fire.” ― Emily Ley
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ― Maya Angelou
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” ― James M. Barrie
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.” ― Bette Davis
“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship’s captain complaining about the sea.” ― Enoch Powell
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” – Robin Williams
“If you reach for a star, you might not get one. But you won’t come up with a hand full of mud either.” ― Leo Burnett
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” ― Andy Rooney
“The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts.” ― Fulton J. Sheen
“See the world like a big wardrobe. Everybody has his own costume. There is only one that fits you perfectly.” ― George Harris
“You need to be comfortable with you. Stop worrying about the couple in the corner who may or may not be looking at you funny.” ― Willow Cross
“My father taught me a good lesson: Don’t get to low when things go wrong. And don’t get too high when things are good.” ― Robert Perish
“The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.” ― Jane Bryant Quinn
“Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” ― Henry David Thoreau.
Funny Quotes About Happiness and Life
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” ― Morris West
“Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else’s life.” ― Kobi Yamada
“Live joyfully this life. Once gone, who knows if we ever get it back. Atheists think we do not. Mystics say you will. Either way, chill.” ― Fakeer Ishavardas
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” ― Louisa May Alcott
“Live Life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ― Albert Einstein
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” — Thomas S. Monson
“A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.” — Esther Hicks
“After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.” ― Karl Marx
“The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.” ― Mencius
“Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.” ― Anmol Andore
“The best things in life are silly.” ― Scott Adams
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ― Omar Khayyam
“Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?” ― Albert II, Prince of Monaco
“Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last.” ― Brit Marling
“Life is good. Or at least, it’s always interesting.” ― Joss Stone
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” ― Gerard Way
“Books, Cats, Life is Good.” ― Edward Gorey
“I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.” ― Robert Baden-Powell
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” ― Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.” ― Joan Rivers
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” ― Sydney J. Harris
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” ― Immanuel Kant
“Happiness is a form of courage.” ― Holbrook Jackson
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is an inside job.” ― William Arthur Ward
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” ― Charles M. Schulz
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” ― Don Marquis
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” ― E.L. Konigsburg
“Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.” ― Dr. Idel Dreimer
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
“Happiness is a place between too much and too little.” ― Finnish Proverb
“Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” ― J. Petit Senn
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” ― Margaret Lee Runbeck
“Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman. Or a bad woman.” ― George Burns
“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.” ― Pat Conroy
“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” ― William E. Gladstone
“Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.” ― Gretchen Bleiler
“It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.” ― Maria Sharapova
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” ― Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” ― Leonardo DiCaprio
“If you want to be happy, be.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“You can be right or you can be happy.” ― Gerald Jampolsky
“Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.” ― Avril Lavigne
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.” ― Edith Wharton
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” ― Albert Einstein
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.” ― Chinese Proverb
“Anybody who tells you money can’t buy happiness never had any.” — Samuel L. Jackson
“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.” ― Sarah McLachlan
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” — Andre Maurois
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” — Bo Derek
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” — Dale Carnegie
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais
“True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” ― Bill Vaughan
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” ― Rose Lane
“People say money is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”— Joan Rivers
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” ― Ashley Montagu
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ― Herman Cain
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” ― William Feather
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” ― Martha Washington
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” ― Frederick Keonig
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ― Aristotle
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ― Guillaume Apollinaire
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” — Maxim Gorky
“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends – but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more positive partnership.” ― Julio Alexi Genao
“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” ― Ella Woodward
“Candy is natures way of making up for Mondays.” ― Rebecca Gober
“If each day is a gift, I’d like to know where to return Mondays!” ― John Wagner
“Nothing ruins a Friday more than an understanding that today is Tuesday.” ― Will Ferrell
“Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!” ― Neil Leckman
“Let Tuesday tarnish your day with love and smiles. Happy Tuesday.” ― Anthony T. Hincks
“Did someone order a bright and sunny day? Well…here it is. Happy Tuesday!” ― Anthony T. Hincks
“A Wednesday with no rain is a dry hump day.” — Demetri Martin
“Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!” – Lee Fox Williams
“When people refer to ‘Back in the Day,’ it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.” — Dane Cook
“What’s in a Wednesday? You! That’s who! Happy Wednesday.” — Anthony T. Hincks
“It’s Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.” ― Demetri Martin
“This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.” ― Douglas Adams
“Happy Thursday! Life at work and at home is so much HAPPIER when you speak and act with kindness. Share a smile and make it a great day.” ― Tracey Edmonds
“Its always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves..they tend to spill over..” ― Parag Tipnis
“It’s finally Friday, I’m free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend.” — George Jones
“Happy Friday! Here’s to all of us who made it through another week of faking adulthood.” — Nanea Hoffman
“Oh, my sweet Saturday, I have been waiting for you for six long days.” — Charmaine J. Forde
“I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.” — Chip Gaines
“SUNDAY – The day I planned a lot but did nothing.” ― Lovely Goyal
Funny Happy Sayings
“Be happy, it drives people crazy.”
“Some people call me crazy. I prefer the term happy with a twist.”
“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.”
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we would have a pretty good time.”
“All I ask is the chance to prove that lots of money can’t make me happy.”
“If people are talking behind your back, be happy that you are the one in front.”
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”
“Happiness is no more than good health and a bad memory.”
“If you have what it takes to lead a happy life, make sure you have insurance on it.”
“I didn’t find out what happiness means until I got married… and then it was too late.”
“They say money doesn’t bring happiness, but everyone still wants to prove it for themselves.”
“The richer you get, the more expensive happiness becomes.”
“I am instantly 70% nicer after 3pm on Fridays.”
“Work starts on Monday. Life begins on Friday.”
“But it’s Friday” is a valid excuse for almost anything today.”
“Welcome to Friday. In preparation for takeoff, please ensure all negative attitudes are properly stowed. I expect sunshine and good attitudes today for our trip. Enjoy the ride.”
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”
“If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.”
“When I’m happy I gain weight and none of my clothes fit when I’m miserable I lose weight and fit into all my clothes. So what’s the point: happiness cost you money!”
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Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
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