It’s yearbook season and you need a quote that actually makes people laugh (not just makes your mom and best friend nod and politely smile).
So in today’s post I want to help you out with that by sharing 101 of the most unique, iconic and funny yearbook quotes.
Use one or a few of them as inspiration for your own quote or just grab the one here that makes you laugh the most.
Either way, I hope you’ll find something here to help you leave a hilarious or witty mark in your yearbook that lasts for years to come.
Funny Yearbook Quotes That’ll Leave a Mark That Lasts

“High school was easy. It was like riding a bike. Except the bike was on fire and the ground was on fire and everything was on fire because it was hell.”
– Randey Chung
“Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.”
– Alfred Adler
“Remember… The more you weigh the harder you are to kidnap. Stay safe… Eat cake.”
– Iyanna Morgan
“I want to thank me for believing in me.”
– Snoop Dogg
“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
– W.C. Fields
“I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste. Thank you.”
– Stephanie Flores
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde
“If you like water, you already like 72% of me.”
– Alexandra Vu
“A lot of girls didn’t like me this year, but their boyfriends did.”
– Stephany Esquivel
“Cheaters never win, but I just graduated.”
– Richard Gilot
“If somebody ever asks you to do something, do it really bad, so you never have to do it again.”
– Joanna Clark
“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
– Ankit Jain
“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”
– George Carlin
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard
“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.”
– Robert Orben
“If idiots could fly, this place would be an airport.”
– Daniel Jones
Short and Funny Yearbook Quotes
“My computer screen is brighter than my future.”
– Katia Perez
“Just keep swimming.”
– Dory
“The ‘s’ is silent.”
– Pareekshit Ravi
“Long story short, I survived.”
– Taylor Swift
“Kid, you’ll move mountains.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Ravioli, ravioli, give me the diplomioli.”
– Maximiliano Navarro
“When are our senior quotes due?”
– Jeffrey Goodwin
“I’ve been a Ho all my life.”
– Michelle Ho
“WE ARE NOT RELATED.”
– The Nguyens
“…was released from his four-year sentence.”
– Faizon Graham
“I cheated on all my exams.”
– Roshan McGuinness
“Feeling so good. Looking so bad.”
– Rihanna
“Why fall in love when you can fall asleep.”
– Jessica Enciso
“Education is important, but big biceps are importanter.”
– Hugh Vo
“Hannah Montana said nobody’s perfect, but here I am.”
– Alexander Gouon
“I am not Amith. I am a legend.”
– Amith M.
“I don’t always graduate, but when I do, it’s barely.”
– Hannah Goldsborough
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
– Walt Disney
“I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”
– Clint Eastwood
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote
Unique, Iconic and Funny Yearbook Quotes
“Shoot for the moon; if you miss you will die in outer space, which is cool.”
– Katya Zamolodchikova
“Opinions are like mixtapes: I don’t want to hear yours.”
– Spencer Howard
“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“I am that Nigerian prince that keeps emailing you.”
– Segun Akigbogun
“I got kicked out of Hogwarts for using black magic.”
– Damenian Sparks
“Of course I dress well. I didn’t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.”
– Ian Longley
“‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’ – Wayne Gretzky”
– Michael Scott (The Office)
“I was the Beyoncé in a school full of Michelles.”
– Jose Alvarez
“My senior project was to make a clone. A+”
– Unknown Twins
“To all the teachers that never thought me a thing…”
– Julia Simsuangco
“I’m actually not funny, I’m just really mean and people think I’m joking.”
– Alixandra Garcia
“I used to be a straight A student, now I’m not even straight.”
– Martin Sanchez
“Remember that true beauty comes from within — within bottles, compacts, and lipstick tubes.”
– Jeffree Star
“All my life I’ve had one dream: to achieve my many goals.”
– Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey
“Sam just stole my girl again. – Everyone”
– Samuel Teehee
“I did meet some of the most insufferable people, but they also met me.”
– Shane Madej
“I’m not a businessman; I’m a business, man.”
– Jay-Z
“I’m not saying I peaked in high school, but my attendance record definitely peaked somewhere around in freshman year.”
– Unknown
Hilarious Yearbook Quotes That Will Make Everyone Laugh
“It’s so hard being a single mom when you have no kids and are a male teenager.”
– Aaron
“Goodbye everyone. I’ll remember you all in therapy.”
– Plankton (SpongeBob)
“I’ve learned to say here when the teacher hesitates while taking attendance.”
– Omotola Omotinugbon
“I don’t know, you can just put some quote in for me.”
– Connor
“See kids… I told you your mom was hot back in high school.”
– Paulyn Trinh
“You’ve been watching for the last 12 hours straight, are you okay? – Netflix”
– Kira Bergman
“100 character limit for our senior quote? That seems unfair. We refuse to be constrained by these ru.”
– Aditya Tammana
“Morgan is my girlfriend. – Nobody”
– Morgan Worley
“When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower me into the ground so they can let me down one last time.”
– Jenna Allen
“No, Miranda, your senior quote can’t be ‘Fries before guys.’ — Dad”
– Miranda
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know if you’re gonna graduate.”
– Franco Citlalli
“I’m sorry, did my shoulders distract you from reading this quote?”
– Victoria DiPaolo
“I knew my girl was cheating on me when she said she was at the mall with Kristy, but Kristy was laying right next to me, smh.”
– Nicholas Ke
“Waking up is the second hardest thing in the morning.”
– Connor Hart
“I’m not great at advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
– Chandler Bing (Friends)
“Don’t follow your dreams… Follow my Twitter: @nerojordan”
– Jordan Nero
“Sometimes when I’m taking a bath I like to turn off the lights and pretend I’m in the womb.”
– Aaron Portillo
“If you ain’t talking money… I don’t want to talk.”
– Michael and Steven DiBlasi
Funny Yearbook Quotes for Seniors
“If I can graduate with over 150 absences throughout high school, you can too.”
– Natalie Turk
“The only reason I went to school all this time is to distract myself from the fact that I’ll never be Beyoncé.”
– McKenzie Ward
“All three years of high school, I had my earphones on, and no one ever knew.”
– Amena Al-shugaa
“When life shuts the door, open it back up. That’s how doors work.”
– Diana Lopez
“If you’re seeing this quote in the yearbook, I got all four math credits. Trust me, that means you can too.”
– Gabriela Willis
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
– Jim Carrey
“Thanks Mom and Dad! I couldn’t have done it without you!”
– Rayan Parikh
“You will regret not dating me in high school.”
– Brookelle Wesley
“My head may be big, and my eyes may be small, but my heart is just the right size.”
– Aian Nguyen
“Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.”
– Mitchell Wieland
“I am rather appalled at the limit of characters for this. I am certain that I cannot fit all my thoughts of these last 4 years into such few cha.”
– Karl Mangune
“Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it’s a compliment.”
– Marilynn Dawson
“Why, you no doctor, yet? – Dad”
– Daniel
“Once you grow up, you can’t come back!”
– Peter Pan
“Character is a course, finish it.”
– Mac Canoza
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”
– Zoey Sayward
“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world and there’s still going to be someone who hates peaches.”
– Dita Von Teese
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
– Dr. Seuss
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I’m not great at senior quotes. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
– Alexis
“If we’ve laughed too hard, offended too many people – we’ve done it right.”
– Alexis Bass
Want more laughs this semester? Then have a look at these sarcastic quotes, this one with funny senior quotes and also this post with lots of funny friendship quotes.
Henrik Edberg is the creator of the Positivity Blog and has written weekly articles here since 2006. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Gothenburg and has been featured on Lifehacker, HuffPost and Paulo Coelho’s blog.