114 Lemon Quotes

Following is our list of lemon quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about life gives you lemons.

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Famous Lemon Quotes

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice. - Conan O'Brien

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice. — Conan O'Brien

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. — American Proverbs

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. - Oscar Wilde

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. — Oscar Wilde

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. - Dale Carnegie

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. — Dale Carnegie

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique. - Wanda Sykes

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique. — Wanda Sykes

Lemonade is not just made of lemons. It’s barely lemons! It’s mostly water and sugar! Life didn’t give us that. — Ryan Higa

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye. - Cathy Guisewite

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye. — Cathy Guisewite

When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in. — Colleen Hoover

When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt. — Sanjaya Malakar

When life hands you lemons make lemonade. Then find someone who's life gave them Tequila and have a party. — Ron White

If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it. — Gurbaksh Chahal

When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White

Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. — Bill Bailey

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body. — Jeanine Larmoth

Short Lemon Quotes

  • Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon. — Jonathan Gruber
  • Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor. — Derek Walcott
  • When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies. — Bruce Campbell
  • When life hands you lemons - SQUAT! Squats make everything better. And if squats don't, bacon will — Anna Lee
  • A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. — Ian Fleming
  • When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours. — W. C. Fields
  • When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade. — W. Clement Stone
  • The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter. — Yotam Ottolenghi
  • When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible. — Grace Helbig
  • When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges. — Ellen DeGeneres

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Lemon quote When life gives you lemons, grab tequila
When life gives you lemons, grab tequila

When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back. — Bill Watterson

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris. — Chris Rose

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver — Reba McEntire

When life gives you lemons, throw them back. — Joe Jonas

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining. — Napoleon Hill

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for. — Cassandra Clare

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade. — Rob Thurman

I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff” school of thought. — Cate Tiernan

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater. — Scott Adams

Life Gives You Lemons Quotes

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons. — Louise Hay

Stop worrying and start living. — Dale Carnegie

If life hands you lemons,keep them. Because, hey, free lemons.-T-Shirt — Darynda Jones

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs. — Lance Armstrong

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy. — Will Smith

Lemon Juice Quotes

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. — Giada De Laurentiis

Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice. — Conan O'Brien

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias. — Gerald Durrell

There is no such thing as reconstituted lemon juice, only reconstituted taste buds. — Bert Greene

Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons? — Steven Wright

I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up. — Carine Roitfeld

I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup. — Mason Cooley

The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat. — Melvin Burgess

Workers are like lemons: When the rich have sucked out all the juice, they throw them in the garbage. — Ricardo Flores Magon

Lemonade Quotes

If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

I would always drink iced teas and lemonades and sodas while filming. Now it's only water and coffee. — Joe Gatto

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. — Greg Behrendt

Two wrongs don't make a right. — Roald Dahl

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade — Augusten Burroughs

I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show. — Schoolboy Q

Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel. — Davy Crockett

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade. — Kevin Mitnick

Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade — Cassandra Clare

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm. — Leelee Sobieski

Make Lemonade Quotes

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing. — Jon Foreman

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade. — Andrew Carnegie

I've always had a knack for branding, so even with the lemonade stands, it was "Gary's Lemonade Stand." I worked on the signs all day, more so than on the lemonade itself. Then I learned you had to make good lemonade to build an actual business, so that taught me about lifetime value and quality. — Gary Vaynerchuk

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor. — Emo Philips

If you have a lemon, make lemonade. — Howard Gossage

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me. — Baron Hill

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place. — Gary Marcus

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade. — Lawrence Block

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to TV Guide. I knew how to make a presentation. — Michael Ovitz

I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though. — Patrick Stump

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More Lemon Quotes

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon. — Ina May Gaskin

Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me — Eva Cassidy

Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn. — Tae Yun Kim

I don't want to stand filming in front of the water cannon and guys with Molotovs. I want to show you what it's like to be there as best I can, even if that ends with me running full-speed into a cafe and rubbing lemons all over my face after being tear-gassed. — Tim Pool

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown. — Langston Hughes

A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it? — Ian Fleming

Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up. “I thought you must be dead …” he said simply. “So did I for a while,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic. — Douglas Adams

I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon. — Cate Blanchett

I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her. — Cristin Milioti

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here. — Rob Sheffield

My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart. — Sylvia Plath

My father – who I know is up there right now, with a big pot of gumbo, he’s got a lemon meringue pie, he’s probably in his underwear, and he’s got a cold can of Miller Lite – and he’s dancing. — Matthew McConaughey

The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella? — David Papineau

My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world. — Michael Jordan

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