120+ Funny Mothers Day Quotes to Bring Joy and Laughter

Instead of traditional heartfelt greetings Why not include a bit of humour in the Mother’s Day message? It’s true that in the end, humor can be the best solution and isn’t it? This article we’ll examine some of the most hilarious Mothers Day quotes that are guaranteed to bring a smile to your mom’s face.

Mothers in general have a lot of similar things, however each woman’s journey to becoming a mother and a parent is unique. One thing is certain that motherhood is filled with funny moments that make you laugh loudly.

For this Mother’s Day, when writing an email towards your Mom, compose an interesting poem about how difficult it was for you as a kid, and how she taught you or, if you’d like an entertaining Mother’s Day card, pencil in one of the funny quotes below.

No matter what you are doing, send an expression of gratitude and love! It’s the day when mothers all over the world can relax and be admired for all the hard work they put into.

Let mom laugh until that her stomach hurts or make her cry with these humorous Mother’s Day quotes.

Top 120+ Funny Mothers Day Quotes

“Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?” – Alyson Hannigan

“I smile because you’re my mother. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.” – Unknown

“Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath, and hope we’ve set aside enough money to pay for our kids’ therapy.” – Michelle Pfeiffer

“If I wasn’t at work, I just wanted to stay home and party with my little man… and by ‘party,’ I mean, of course, endless rounds of ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider.’” – Olivia Wilde

“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” – Dorothy, The Golden Girls

“Motherhood: It takes patience, humor, and a lot of wet towelettes.” – Unknown

“I don’t want to sleep like a baby. I want to sleep like my husband.” – Unknown

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” – Calvin Trillin

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.” – Erma Bombeck

“There’s something really empowering about going, ‘Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just do.” – Kate Winslet

“To be honest, I’m just winging it. Life, motherhood, my eye liner. Everything.” – Unknown

“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.’” – Susan Savannah

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.” – Unknown

“Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?” – Alyson Hannigan

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” – Lane Olinghouse

“Over the years, I learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.” – Nancy Stahl

“Honey, I’m your mother. It’s my job to strong-arm people into seeing how amazing you are.” – Beverly Goldberg, The Goldbergs

“Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious.” – Unknown

“Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.” – Tina Fey

“No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too.” – Chrissy Teigen

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” – Nora Ephron

“Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.” – Unknown

“I’ve conquered a lot of things… blood clots in my lungs, twice… kneed and foot surgeries… winning Grand Slams being down match point… to name just a few, but I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller!” – Serena Williams

“It’d be cool if my kids could make something I actually want. Like a bottle of wine out of macaroni.” – Unknown

“I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.” – Reese Witherspoon

“Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young.” – Author Unknown

“Mothers are all slightly insane.” – J.D. Salinger

“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln

“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” – Chinese Proverb

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” – Calvin Trillin

“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after.” – Peter De Vries

“It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.” – Phyllis Diller

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” – Oscar Wilde

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan

“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” -William D. Tammeus.

“Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life.” – Author Unknown

“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” – LisaAlther

“My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.” – KareemAbdul – Jabbar

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain

“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.” – Buddy Hackett

“I see all these moms who can do everything, and I think… I should have them do some stuff for me.” – @NotSalmon

“Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” – Nia Vardalos

“A mother is the person you can always call to see how long chicken lasts in the fridge.” – Unknown

“You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.” – Jennifer Garner

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” – Milton Berle

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana

“If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Adrienne Grandi

“Of all the gifts that life has to offer, a loving mother is the greatest of them all.” – Unknown

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” – Amy Tan

“Mothers are smiles and hugs and caring, but most of all, they’re love.” – Unknown

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie

“My mother loved children –  she would have given anything if I had been one.”  – Groucho Marx

“It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”  – Helen Rowland

“I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.”  – Groucho Marx

“Wine is necessary.” – Kelly Clarkson

“You know you’re a mom when you understand why Mama Bear’s porridge was cold.” – Unknown

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” – Erma Bombeck

“Mother (n): One person who does the work of 20. For free. See also: saint, Wonder Woman.” – Unknown

“I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.” – Reese Witherspoon

“Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too.” – Lionel Kauffman

“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.” – Peter de Vries

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.” – Marguerite Duras

“My nickname is ‘Mom.’ But my full name is ‘Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom.’” – Unknown

“Stepping on a LEGO land mine at 4:30 a.m. while holding a baby and not falling should be an Olympic sport.” – Unknown

“Being a mom means kids banging on the bathroom door like SWAT, asking for a drink, while you’re in the shower. And Dad is in the kitchen.” – @SarcasticMommy

“I’m a mom. I have a right to be lazy and braless whenever I find time to be.” – Meraki Mother

“Not all who wander are lost. Some are just moms. In Target. Hiding from their children.” – One Project Closer

“Behind every great child is a mom who’s pretty sure she’s screwing it all up.” – Unknown

“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.” – William Feather

“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” – Spanish proverb

“Raising kids is like a walk in the park. Jurassic Park.” – Unknown

“Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.” – Dave Berry

“I am sure that if the mothers and various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” – E.M. Forster

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” – Jane Sellman

“I’m not really a mama bear. I’m more of a mama llama. Like, I’m pretty chill, but I’ll kick you in the face if you screw with my kids.” – Scary Mommy

“Hey, parents of an only child considering having one more, know that I just split an M&M in half. An M&M. In half.” – @ValeeGrrl

“I was so cute when I thought I was tired before I had kids. So cute.” – Unknown

“Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike. You never forget.” – Taraji P. Henson

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” – Phyllis Diller

“Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” -Nia Vardalos

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” – Michael Jordan

“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.” – Julie Bowen

“You are a woman, you are a wife, you are a daughter, and best of all, you are a mother. Happy Mother’s Day.”

“Being a mom has made me really tired and so happy.” – Tina Fey

“My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” -Drew Barrymore

“My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.” – Betty White

“I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me.” – Aimee Bender

My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.” – Betty White

“Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter.” – Caitlin Houston

“My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her.” – Sonya Teclai

“Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.” – Japanese Proverb

“A mother, who is really a mother is never free.” – Honore de Balzac

“A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes.” –Barbara Cage

“The best moms get promoted to Grandma!” – Unknown

“Happy Mother’s Day to the sweetest Grandma in the world.” – Unknown

“Every house needs a grandmother in it.” – Louisa May Alcott

“A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes.” – Barbara Cage

“Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, keep secrets like a sister, and share love like a friend.” – Unknown

“Aunts are the ones who stand beside Moms when nieces and nephews enter the world.” – Karen Moore

“An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.” – Sara Sheridan

“I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side.” – Geena Davis

“I have always maintained the importance of aunts.” – Jane Austen

“My mom, my aunt, and my grandma banded together and gave me a village of support when I was growing up.” – Michael Tubbs

“All moms need that friend who loves your kids like their own, who listens to you without judgement, and will always tell you when you have food stuck in your teeth.” –Hot Moms Club

“Happy Mother’s Day to the sweetest mom I know and the best friend I have!” – Unknown

“There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are a super mom.” –Stephanie Precourt

“Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.” – Carol Saline

“A mom is like a tea bag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Cheryl Lacey Donavan

“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” – Walter Winchell

“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” – Godfrey Winn

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill

“Never pass up an offer for someone to watch the kids. And never stop dating your wife.” – Ken Fite

Conclusion

The joy of celebrating mom’s birthday with humor and fun makes the event even more memorable. While sentimental words are important however, incorporating some fun moms day quotes helps keep the mood light. The ability to laugh is one of the most important gifts mothers can provide their children daily.