Top 60 Funny Work Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”

— Steven Wright

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2. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

— Douglas Adams

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3. “I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”

— Steven Wright

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4. “Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.”

— Steven Wright

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5. “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

— Groucho Marx

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6. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’”

— Dave Barry

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7. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

— Will Rogers

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8. “A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows.”

— Linus Torvalds

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9. “Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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10. “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

— Mark Twain

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11. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

— Groucho Marx

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12. “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

— Mark Twain

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13. “Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.”

— Doug Larson

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14. “Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there’s only one of me.”

— Linus Torvalds

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15. “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”

— Douglas Adams

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16. “They don’t think it is like it is, but it is.”

— Oscar Gamble

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17. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”

— Stephen Hawking

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18. “Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”

— George Carlin

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19. “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

— Terry Pratchett

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20. “Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

— George Carlin

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21. “Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.”

— Linus Torvalds

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22. “If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”

— Steven Wright

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23. “Mondays are fine. It’s your life that sucks.”

— Ricky Gervais

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24. “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t know where it’s going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.”

— Michael Scott

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25. “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”

— Rick Riordan

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26. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

— A. A. Milne

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27. “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.”

— Douglas Adams

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28. “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

— Douglas Adams

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29. “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”

— David Ogilvy

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30. “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.”

— Yogi Berra

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31. “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

— Bob Hope

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32. “In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.”

— Douglas Adams

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33. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

— Yogi Berra

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34. “In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity.”

— Warren Buffett

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35. “If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? ”

— George Carlin

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36. “This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

— Douglas Adams

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37. “The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.”

— Woody Allen

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38. “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”

— Mark Twain

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39. “There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you’re busy interrupting.”

— Mark Twain

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40. “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”

— George Carlin

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41. “Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor’s appointment.”

— Nick Offerman

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42. “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.”

— Marshawn Lynch

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43. “Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.”

— Jeremy Clarkson

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44. “I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.”

— Steven Wright

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45. “The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.”

— Terry Pratchett

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46. “Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”

— Scott Adams

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47. “What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”

— Pearl Bailey

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48. “I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”

— Ronald Reagan

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49. “Go have fun and make money.”

— James Victore

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50. “Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

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