Thanksgiving is a fun and iconic holiday, both meaningful and enjoyable, which is why we have gathered all the best funny thanksgiving sayings for you to share. And if you’re looking for short funny Thanksgiving sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
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Funny Thanksgiving Sayings
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May your Thanksgiving be as wonderful as you are.
Don’t forget to squash up for Thanksgiving dinner.
You’ve got to be pumpkin-ding me!
My gobble-let overfloweth
You know I was corn to be wild.
Pour some gravy on me.
This meal is pumpkin special.

Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater
Thyme flies when you’re cooking a whole turkey!
Can you be-leaf that all this food is for Thanksgiving?
Hi, it’s so rice to meet you!
Let’s talk turkey
Don’t let any Thanksgiving turkey go to baste.

In every life, a little cranberry must fall.
The gravy is calm because it knows how to simmer down.
Whatever floats your gravy boat.
You’re the apple of my pie
Gobble till you wobble! Happy Thanksgiving to the best family ever.
Corn in the U.S.A!
I can’t make everyone happy—I’m not pumpkin spice!
Keep calm and gobble on
“I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.” – Damien Fahey
Gobble ’til you wobble
This turkey is thankful for vegetarians.
This food is looking gravy-licious.
Zero plucks given
Nobody puts gravy in the corner.
Hope your Thanksgiving is packed with good times and great food.
Happy Thanksgiving! May your feast be delicious and your naps be long.
Go big or gourd home
“It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.” – Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
There’s just pumpkin about the way you look tonight.
I’m thankful to have a family who takes eating as seriously as I do
Let’s eat, drink, and be thankful. Happy Thanksgiving, friend!

Don’t even chai to say you love fall more than me
We’re trading in the Christmas tree for poul-tree this year.
Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes
Let’s get basted!
Only have pies for this one.
I’m ready to season the day.
There’s pumpkin about Thanksgiving that I love so much.
You could say I’m into fitness—as in, fitness scoop of mashed potatoes into my mouth.
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s eat, drink, and be thankful.
Eat, drink and be cranberry.
Pumpkin season has begun
The dad jokes are plucking hilarious!
Hope your Thanksgiving is as awesome as you are.
I’ve never met a pumpkin I didn’t like
You crack me up like a wishbone!
Pumpkin spice and chill
Because you know I’m all about that baste
Official occupation: couch potato
Whatever floats your gravy boat.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with joy and leftovers.
The only ice cream Pilgrims can eat is rocky road.
“Oh Snap,” said the wishbone.

“Of all of the food filled holidays, Thanksgiving reigns king in the United States.” – Gia Scott
Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine
Family may not see pie to pie, but we sure do love Thanksgiving.
“Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America’s obesity statistics.”—Stephen Colbert
Don’t make fun of the turkey—it’s been roasted enough today.
Nobody puts gravy in the corner
“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”—Jay Leno
Me: “I can’t eat another bite!” Also me: “Did you say pie?
May your turkey be juicy and your pies be endless. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend!
I sure am plucky to be eating this meal!
I’m so bready for all these carbs on Thanksgiving.
I was corn this way!
“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.”—Kin Hubbard
“Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftover in aluminum foil and throw them out.”—Nicole Hollander
Gobble gobble! Here’s to a Thanksgiving stuffed with fun.
Wishing you a holiday full of mashed potatoes and minimal family drama.
Turkey, gravy, beans and rolls. Let me see that casserole.
Don’t mess with us, or we’ll show you how we casser-roll.
Please raise your gobble gobble goblets for a Thanksgiving toast!
Last but not feast.
The maize is full of corny people.
Squash goals.

Thanksgiving indulging
My favorite color is autumn
Eat, drink, and cranberry!
You thought Thanksgiving was over? You ain’t seen stuffing yet!
Goodness gracious, great gobbles of fire!
Lets just wing it with the turkey this year.
Old habits pie hard.
Gourd your loins!
Happy Turkey Day! Let’s eat until we pass out.
“Here I am, 5 o’clock in the morning, stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird’s butt.” – Rosanne in Rosanne
Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with family, friends, and fun.
May your turkey be moist and your stuffing be just right. Happy Thanksgiving!
The only thing getting lit this weekend is my pumpkin spice candle
May your Thanksgiving be merry, your turkey juicy, and your pie plentiful.
I cran and I will go back for seconds
Hope your Thanksgiving is as wonderful as you are… and as full as your plate!
May your Thanksgiving be filled with as much joy as your heart – and as much food as your stomach can hold.
And they lived apple-y ever after
I don’t want to accuse anyone of fowl play, but there’s no more leftovers.
Happy Turkey Day! Let’s eat, nap, and repeat.
Leaves are falling, autumn is calling
We’re serving the turkey’s favorite dessert this year: peach gobbler!
I’m filling pretty full!

Is butter(ball) a carb?
“Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.” – Stephen Colbert
“Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.” – Augusten Burroughs
“It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.” —Phyllis Diller
Don’t be a jerky, eat some turkey
We go together like turkey and gravy
This turkey is all carved up! Do you suspect fowl play?
This corn is simply a-maize-ing.
Can’t wait to feast my eyes on the dessert.
I like big bundts and I cannot lie.
Baste. Thanksgiving. Ever.
Happy Thanksgiving! May your gravy be smooth and your turkey perfectly cooked.
Stuffing is the tur-key to my heart.
You’re the apple of my pie.
Pure pumpkin goodness
This turkey will make you fowl with delight.
You ain’t seen stuffing yet.
Hope your Thanksgiving is full of love, laughter, and second helpings.
Oh my gourd, I’m stuffed.
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s make some epic holiday memories.
“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.”—Rita Rudner
It’s all filling and games until you have to unbutton your pants.

Happy Winesgiving
Thankful today and every day
Stop, drop, and pass the rolls
I yam what I yam
Family, turkey, and football — oh my!
My favorite genre of music is Plymouth rock n’ roll!
A happy heart is a thankful heart
This food is truly off the stuffing charts!
Oh my gourd, I ate too much.
May your Thanksgiving be filled with laughter, love, and second helpings.
Stop, drop, and pass the rolls!
Gourd times
“It’s Thanksgiving and we should not want to be together, together!”—Rachel Green, Friends
I’m gravy for you!
I’ve got stuffing to lose.
Roll out!
All you knead is love and pumpkin pie
We’re really plucky to have a great turkey this Thanksgiving.
Give thanks and pass the mashed potatoes
Thankful for friends that turned into family
Why don’t turkeys eat on Thanksgiving? They’re stuffed.
Autumn leaves and pumpkins please

Autumn skies and pumpkin pies
This wine pairs well with a crazy family
Thanksgiving dinner spread always smells fowl.
“Arrgh,” says the pie-rate.
There’s a new pumpkin in the patch!
Gourd out of my mind
Fifty shades of gravy
“Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.” – Eric Samuel Timm
You call it chaos. We call it family.
Because you know I’m all about that baste
May your Thanksgiving be full of fun, food, and fantastic memories.
Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs
I will eat all of this food all pie myself.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with laughter and lots of turkey.
The turkey looks a little under the feather this year.
Squashing my hands of this.
If you give the turkey coffee, it’ll be a perky!
Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with food, fun, and a little bit of craziness.
Eat, drink, and cranberry
Thyme flies when you’re cooking a whole turkey!
This turkey is poultry in motion.
This meal can’t get any butter.

I love fall from the bautumn of my heart
I’m pie-ning for you.
Pie am so grateful for dessert.
Let’s get cranberry sauced
Not to be corny, but I’m feeling thankful
Here’s to a Thanksgiving full of gratitude, good times, and great food.
“Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.” —Melanie White
I’m on a dinner roll.
Let the gourd times roll
You can tell the gravy is excited because it’s all stirred up.
Birds of a feather flock together
Family, food, and fun – what more could we ask for? Happy Thanksgiving!
Thankful, blessed, and mashed potato obsessed
B-autumns up
“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” – Erma Bombeck
Let’s get basted!
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”—Oscar Wilde
Feeling saucy.
“For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.”—Andy Borowitz
When it doubt, gravy it out!
I love you from my head to my potatoes.

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” —Kevin James
We go together like turkey and gravy
The gravy train
I’m filling pretty full!
Thankful for elastic waistbands
I yam what I yam
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”—Ina Garten
I only have pies for you.
Will I eat leftovers for a week? I cran, and I will.
Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.
“I got to go home for Thanksgiving and sit at the adults’ table. That’s ’cause, you know, somebody had to die for me to move up a plate.” —Andre Kelley
Thankful for family, food, and fun times. Let the feasting begin!
Let’s squash the family drama today.
It’s leg day
Thanksgiving is plucking awesome
It’s turkey time
If our turkey was in a band, he’d play the drumsticks.
Turkey, gravy, beans and rolls. Let me see that casserole.
Nobody puts gravy in a corner.
Feast mode
It’s so easy to lose track of thyme during the holidays.
I’m riding the gravy train to being stuffed.

Oh my gourd I love fall
“Thanksgiving—when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook. – Melanie White
We’re having a yam good time.
It’s all gravy, baby
Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about
Let’s get basted this Thanksgiving!
Let’s be thankful for elastic waistbands this Thanksgiving.
Don’t stop be-leafing
Feast your eyes on this glorious Thanksgiving spread.
Pumpkin is the spice of life
Eat, drink and cranberry.
We all have something in common with the turkey today: We’re stuffed.
Thankful for you today and every day. Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m a little bit of a country pumpkin
Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with joy, laughter, and gravy.
Don’t let the turkey fool you. He’s got a baste of spades in his giblets.
They whine. I wine.
More rolls? You butter believe it
I haven’t tripped, but here I am in the fall
I yam who I yam.
Don’t stop be-leafing
It’s all or stuffing with the Thanksgiving feast.

“Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving.”—Mike Connolly
Life’s gourd, and then you pie.
Pie plucking love this holiday
I always feel a lot butter on Thanksgiving.
Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth
Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs
Much ado about stuffing.
Don’t whine, drink some wine!
Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with good food, good times, and good memories.
I can’t eat another bite. Oh look, pie!
Orange you glad it’s fall?
I’m ready to talk turkey all evening.
Oh, do you like the main course? Well, you haven’t seen stuffing yet.
Let’s talk turkey
Wine not have another glass?
Dessert after the meal is the tur-key to my heart.
Family, turkey, and football — oh my!
Wishing you a Thanksgiving that’s stuffed with blessings.
Hope your Thanksgiving is stuffed with happiness and gravy.
I yam legend.
What a cluster pluck
Thanksgiving dinner was made all in a holi-day’s work.

“‘So what do we do?’ We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.” – Heather Brewer, Eleventh Grade Burns
Talk turkey to me
Gobble ’til you wobble.
Hit me, gravy, one more time
Hope your Thanksgiving is stuffed with happiness – and turkey, of course!
Nobody puts gravy in the corner
Hap-pie Thanksgiving!
There was no fowl play involved in the carving of this turkey.
Hope your Thanksgiving is full of love, laughter, and leftovers.
Eat hard, nap harder
Beauty and the feast.
Eat, drink, and be thankful
Let’s get this bread. (And butter.)
I love when you talk turkey to me.
All you knead is love — and pumpkin pie
Winner, winner, turkey dinner
In an autumn state of mind
I’m all corn up inside.
Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is my jam!
Current status: stuffed like a turkey
Silence of the yams.
Winning the wishbone is a snap!
You’ve foiled my plans for taking home leftovers.

I’m carbo-loading…for Black Friday.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving that’s as sweet as pumpkin pie.
Not to get too corny, but this Thanksgiving food is amaizeing.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving full of belly laughs and stretchy pants.
I gobbled all of it up!
It doesn’t get any butter than this.
May your Thanksgiving be filled with good food and great company.
The only thing corny about Thanksgiving is cornbread.
Can’t nobody tell me stuffin’
Thankful for friends like you – especially when there’s food involved.
Talk turkey to me
Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with lots of love and pie. Mostly pie.
Here’s to a day of great food, good company, and no judgment on seconds.
I’ve got stuffing to hide!
Here’s the one photo we got before the food coma hit…
Don’t let the holidays gobble up your sanity.
At a certain point, pumpkins got to give!
What comes first: The poul-tree or the Christmas tree.
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a yam!
Orange is the new black
Winner, winner, turkey dinner
Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine

I never want to leaf this beautiful place
Easy as pie!
Don’t stare at the turkey dressing. You’ll make him blush!
Gravy, I love your way.
Hey, that turkey wishbone is doing its best—give it a break.
I’m all about that baste life!
Oh my gourd-ness, I love Thanksgiving
Gobble till you wobble! Have a great Thanksgiving!
“Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.”—Michael Dresser
Leftovers are for quitters
Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth
Pie really love you.
There’s no need for a wine glass when you’ve got a gobble-let!
I’m plucking stuffed.
Gobble ‘til you wobble
Happy Turkey Day! Hope your holiday is deliciously fun.
You gotta go all or stuffing on Thanksgiving.
Touchdowns, tailgates, and turkey
Easy as pumpkin pie
“Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.” – P.J. O’Rourke
Never fear, pumpkin-flavored everything is here!
Silence of the yams.
Don’t marsh my mallow this Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s get our gobble on.
A good Thanksgiving meal is the tur-key to my heart.
I’m riding the gravy train to being stuffed.
Feeling berry thankful to be here.
Pies before guys
Cluck it, let’s celebrate!
“Hope my relatives are getting along with the professional line sitter I hired to hold my place at the front of the Thanksgiving food line.” —John Lyon
Happy Piesgiving, folks!
That was plucking delicious!
Give ’em pumpkin to talk about
Whip, whip—hooray!
Cutest pumpkins in the patch
It doesn’t get any butter than this
“People who love to eat are always the best people. – Julia Child
Bready for seconds!
Long sleeves and autumn leaves
You’re the gravy to my mashed potatoes.
I have a crust on you!
This meal is the cranberry on top.
Good vibes and apple pies.

Can someone pick up the turkey’s phone? It’s winging.
More rolls? You better believe it
Casse-rollin’ with the fam!
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Laynni has been sharing her travel adventures and day-to-day life on Routinely Nomadic social media for over 15 years and appreciates the importance of finding the perfect quote or caption to showcase those experiences. Putting her extensive writing and education background to good use, Laynni has become passionate about researching and curating comprehensive lists of all the best quotes and captions for every occasion.