When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes, Sayings and Jokes

Everyone’s heard it at one point in their life… “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Who was the original author though? Grandma? It seems to be one of those quotes that just has entered public consciousness and is pervasive. Strangely enough though, the origin of the famous saying hasn’t been lost yet. Dale Carnegie was the man who coined the phrase though he’s mostly known for writing the famous book “How to win friends and influence people.” Of course, everything slowly gets out of context eventually, so why not update the phrase to our modern times?

When life gives you lemons, be sure to send a hand written thank you note for the lemons, as email thank you notes can appear to be less sincere.

When life gives you lemons suck out all of the vitamin C and yell “EAT THAT, LIFE!

When life gives you lemons ask for salt and tequila!

When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, then wonder how the heck you did it.

When life gives you lemons, collect them one day life will stop and u would have the most lemons ever.

When life hands you lemons make lemonade and find someone else who life handed vodka to, and have a party

When life gives you lemons alter their DNA and make super lemons!!!

When life gives you lemons just shut up and eat your damn lemons

When life gives you lemons sell them on ebay,

When life gives you lemons when no one is looking, throw them through life’s window and run away.

When life gives you lemons, squirt the juice in his eye

When life gives you lemons, find a kid with a paper cut

When life gives you lemons, ask for the receipt

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237 thoughts on “When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes, Sayings and Jokes”

  1. When life gives you lemons, shut the hell up and take the fricking lemons. It’s not like you’re going to be getting anything better.

  2. when life gives you lemons make them all different colors then sell them to hobos and tell them they are easter eggs

  3. when life gives you lemons, also ask for some blackcurrents, limes, oranges and strawberries and make yourself some skittles vodka! :)yum!

  4. When life gives you lemons, start a business and monopolize the lemon industry, and soon, you’ll be one of the richest person ever

  5. When Life Gives me Lemons I polish them up,stand on a car lot and sell them at an overpriced value =)

  6. When life gives you lemons, keep them. In 100 years, you’ll be the only one with lemons because global warming will kill all the lemon trees.

    When life gives you lemons, ask yourself how a non-tangible thing like life can physically hand you something.

  7. when life gives you lemons ask for skittles
    when life gives you skittles go throw them at people yelling TASK THE RANBOW!

  8. Alright, I’ve been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade (Yeah.), make life take the lemons back! (Yeah.) Get mad(Yeah!) I don’t want your damn lemons, what am i supposed to do with these!? (Yeah, take the lemons…) Demand to see life’s manager!(Yeah!) Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who i am!? I’m the man whose going to burn your house down, with the lemons (Oh, I like this guy.) I’m going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon, that burns your house down! (BURN HIS HOUSE DOWN!) (Burning people, he says what we’re all thinking!)

  9. if life gives you lemons, repeat the phrase “trick or TREAT”, with an emphasis on the “treat” =) hehe

  10. When life gives you lemons, throw them back and say, “Go make your own DAMN lemonade!!!”

  11. When life gives you lemons, get a knife and cut them in half. I meant life, not the lemons.

  12. When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought to give me lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s going to burn your house down… with the lemons! I’m going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down.

  13. if life gives u lemons… keep them cuz hey! free lemons!
    if life gives u lemons… throw them bak and demand chocolate!

  14. When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

  15. If the world gives you lemons, you can make lemonade… or you can make a biologically engineered virulent air-born pathogenic virus that will wipe out the entire population of the planet, which would be a whole lot cooler.

  16. When life gives you lemons , sell them to the highest price (3$/kg) then buy low rate shares, sell them 3 days after when their value is double then buy bonds , sell them after one month then buy the 51% of a low cost rated company based in Africa , change their structure , fire some workers raize the company and then sell it to the highest bider , then buy shares on a construction company based on Dubai , wait for them to start constructing a large Hotel or smthing and then sell your shares after that toy must be a billionaire
    repeat when lemons are available again !!!!
    danny biz

  17. when life gives you lemons …….. keep asking for more until you have millions of them and use them to summon the emperor of darkness and use his powers to extinguish life from those who made your life a living hell and watch their faces as he slowly feast on their pain and suffering, rejoice as you hear their screams and wails of despair and anguish…..

    or ya know just throw them back and ask for candies :)

  18. When life give you lemons, mix them up with a bit of sugar and some pinga or vodka and plenty of ice. There you have a perfect caipirinha. Mmmmm delicious!!!!

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