Thanksgiving is a fun and iconic holiday, both meaningful and enjoyable, which is why we have gathered all the best short thanksgiving sayings for you to share. And if you’re looking for short Thanksgiving sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
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Short Thanksgiving Sayings
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Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about
Sending you warmth and well wishes across the miles.
Roll out!
Let’s eat, drink, and be thankful. Happy Thanksgiving, friend!
Family, food and gratitude—my favorite things
I like big bundts and I cannot lie.
Autumn skies and pumpkin pies

Hey, that turkey wishbone is doing its best—give it a break.
Current status: stuffed like a turkey
Gobble till you wobble! Have a great Thanksgiving!
Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with joy and leftovers.
It doesn’t get any butter than this.
There’s no need for a wine glass when you’ve got a gobble-let!
Much ado about stuffing.
All you knead is love — and pumpkin pie
Thankful for the late-night chats, the spontaneous road trips, and the unwavering support.

I’m ready to talk turkey all evening.
I can’t make everyone happy—I’m not pumpkin spice!
Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with lots of love and pie. Mostly pie.
May your Thanksgiving be as wonderful as you are.
Food tastes better when shared
May your Thanksgiving be full of the kind of love that only family can give.
May your table be surrounded by people who get you and food that comforts you.
Nobody puts gravy in the corner
Casse-rollin’ with the fam!
Whatever floats your gravy boat.
Don’t forget to squash up for Thanksgiving dinner.
Silence of the yams.
It’s leg day
Eat hard, nap harder
Good vibes and apple pies.
Happy Thanksgiving! May your gravy be smooth and your turkey perfectly cooked.
My gobble-let overfloweth
Turkey, gravy, beans and rolls. Let me see that casserole.
Wishing you a season filled with warmth, good food, and even better company.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with good food, good times, and good memories.
This corn is simply a-maize-ing.
The only thing corny about Thanksgiving is cornbread.

Thanksgiving dinner was made all in a holi-day’s work.
Can someone pick up the turkey’s phone? It’s winging.
Hoping your day is as rich in joy as your table is in pie.
Thanksgiving dinner spread always smells fowl.
This turkey will make you fowl with delight.
You call it chaos. We call it family.
I’m riding the gravy train to being stuffed.
Feeling saucy.
And they lived apple-y ever after
Long sleeves and autumn leaves
You gotta go all or stuffing on Thanksgiving.
There’s always something to be thankful for
Thankful, blessed, and mashed potato obsessed
Family, turkey, and football — oh my!
Pie really love you.
You know I was corn to be wild.
May your Thanksgiving be filled with laughter, love, and second helpings.
This food is truly off the stuffing charts!
Baste. Thanksgiving. Ever.
Oh my gourd-ness, I love Thanksgiving
Thankful for elastic waistbands
Me: “I can’t eat another bite!” Also me: “Did you say pie?

What a cluster pluck
I’m a little bit of a country pumpkin
Family, food, and fun – what more could we ask for? Happy Thanksgiving!
Here’s the one photo we got before the food coma hit…
Grateful for the texts, the talks, and the tacos—every moment matters.
Thankful for the friends who turn ordinary days into unforgettable memories.
Hi, it’s so rice to meet you!
I can’t eat another bite. Oh look, pie!
Eat, drink, and cranberry
Pour some gravy on me.
There was no fowl play involved in the carving of this turkey.
Thanksgiving is plucking awesome
Grateful for the simple things—sunlight, kindness, and the people who make life feel whole.
We’re trading in the Christmas tree for poul-tree this year.
Let’s talk turkey
Pumpkin is the spice of life
Eat, drink and cranberry.
May your turkey be moist and your stuffing be just right. Happy Thanksgiving!
Pumpkin season has begun
Squash goals.
May your Thanksgiving be full of quiet moments, loud laughter, and lasting memories.
Thankful today and every day

Grateful for every moment spent with the people who feel like home.
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s get our gobble on.
The dad jokes are plucking hilarious!
This meal can’t get any butter.
Let’s squash the family drama today.
This meal is pumpkin special.
Here’s to friendship that feels like home and holidays that feel like healing.
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater
Happy Turkey Day! Hope your holiday is deliciously fun.
Family may not see pie to pie, but we sure do love Thanksgiving.
At a certain point, pumpkins got to give!
Don’t let the turkey fool you. He’s got a baste of spades in his giblets.
To the ones who make life better just by being in it—thank you.
This turkey is all carved up! Do you suspect fowl play?
You thought Thanksgiving was over? You ain’t seen stuffing yet!
Family, turkey, and football — oh my!
Don’t mess with us, or we’ll show you how we casser-roll.
I’ve got stuffing to hide!
Thyme flies when you’re cooking a whole turkey!
May your Thanksgiving be a gentle reminder of all that’s good.
Feeling all the love and gratitude this Thanksgiving
We go together like turkey and gravy
We all have something in common with the turkey today: We’re stuffed.
Autumn leaves and pumpkins please

Because you know I’m all about that baste
I’m riding the gravy train to being stuffed.
Thankful for you, even if we don’t say it often enough.
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s eat, drink, and be thankful.
Turkey, gravy, beans and rolls. Let me see that casserole.
Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth
This meal is the cranberry on top.
Thankful for friends that turned into family
There’s just pumpkin about the way you look tonight.
Go big or gourd home
What comes first: The poul-tree or the Christmas tree.
Not to get too corny, but this Thanksgiving food is amaizeing.
Wishing you a day of hugs, home-cooked goodness, and heartfelt connection.
A happy heart is a thankful heart
It doesn’t get any butter than this
I gobbled all of it up!
B-autumns up
Gobble gobble! Here’s to a Thanksgiving stuffed with fun.
Here’s to the traditions we keep and the new ones we create together.
Nobody puts gravy in the corner
I’m filling pretty full!

May your home be filled with laughter, your table with favorites, and your hearts with gratitude.
Gourd your loins!
Here’s to chosen family and the joy of being together.
Give thanks and eat pie
Don’t let the holidays gobble up your sanity.
You crack me up like a wishbone!
Wine not have another glass?
Pie am so grateful for dessert.
It’s all filling and games until you have to unbutton your pants.
Oh my gourd, I’m stuffed.
I only have pies for you.
Happy Thanksgiving! May your feast be delicious and your naps be long.
Bready for seconds!
Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs
I was corn this way!
You’re the apple of my pie.
Eat, drink and be thankful
This turkey is poultry in motion.
I love when you talk turkey to me.
You make the hard days easier and the good days even better—grateful for you.
Thankful for the love that lives in every shared meal and every old story retold.

If you give the turkey coffee, it’ll be a perky!
Give thanks and pass the mashed potatoes
Winner, winner, turkey dinner
Easy as pie!
May your Thanksgiving be merry, your turkey juicy, and your pie plentiful.
We’re having a yam good time.
This turkey is thankful for vegetarians.
You’ve got to be pumpkin-ding me!
Eat, drink and be cranberry.
You’re the gravy to my mashed potatoes.
Feeling thankful and a little bit stuffed
A family that eats together, stays together
Grateful, thankful, blessed
Thankful for today and all the tomorrows
Corn in the U.S.A!
Winner, winner, turkey dinner
When it doubt, gravy it out!
Wishing you peace, comfort, and a heart full of thanks.
Is butter(ball) a carb?
Eat, drink, and cranberry!
Grateful for the chaos, the comfort, and the unconditional love of family.
More rolls? You butter believe it

All you knead is love and pumpkin pie
Don’t be a jerky, eat some turkey
Gratitude is the best attitude
Here’s to the traditions that ground us and the people who lift us.
Life’s gourd, and then you pie.
Eat, drink, and be thankful
May your turkey be juicy and your pies be endless. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend!
It’s all gravy, baby
Why don’t turkeys eat on Thanksgiving? They’re stuffed.
Great times, even better company
It’s turkey time
Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is my jam!
Let’s get this bread. (And butter.)
I always feel a lot butter on Thanksgiving.
Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth
Hope your Thanksgiving is as awesome as you are.
Feast your eyes on this glorious Thanksgiving spread.
Hope your Thanksgiving is stuffed with happiness and gravy.
Don’t whine, drink some wine!
Don’t let any Thanksgiving turkey go to baste.
Feast your eyes on the Friendsgiving fam
Thankful for family, food, and fun times. Let the feasting begin!

I’m thankful to have a family who takes eating as seriously as I do
Gobble ’til you wobble.
Feast mode
“Arrgh,” says the pie-rate.
Gravy, I love your way.
Can’t nobody tell me stuffin’
In every life, a little cranberry must fall.
Stuffing is the tur-key to my heart.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving that’s as sweet as pumpkin pie.
Stop, drop, and pass the rolls
May your Friendsgiving be full of laughter, leftovers, and love.
I’m carbo-loading…for Black Friday.
I will eat all of this food all pie myself.
Happy Piesgiving, folks!
Let’s get basted!
Because you know I’m all about that baste
Will I eat leftovers for a week? I cran, and I will.
There’s pumpkin about Thanksgiving that I love so much.
Let the gourd times roll
Old habits pie hard.
Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs
We’re serving the turkey’s favorite dessert this year: peach gobbler!

Stop, drop, and pass the rolls!
Not to be corny, but I’m feeling thankful
Can you be-leaf that all this food is for Thanksgiving?
Wishing you a holiday full of mashed potatoes and minimal family drama.
A good Thanksgiving meal is the tur-key to my heart.
Silence of the yams.
Happy Turkey Day! Let’s eat until we pass out.
I cran and I will go back for seconds
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s make some epic holiday memories.
It’s all or stuffing with the Thanksgiving feast.
Hope your Thanksgiving is full of love, laughter, and second helpings.
I haven’t tripped, but here I am in the fall
Let’s get basted this Thanksgiving!
Let’s talk turkey
I’m pie-ning for you.
May your Thanksgiving be full of fun, food, and fantastic memories.
To the ones who know us best and love us anyway—Happy Thanksgiving.
Last but not feast.
I’ve got stuffing to lose.
Zero plucks given
Gobble till you wobble! Happy Thanksgiving to the best family ever.
This wine pairs well with a crazy family

Thyme flies when you’re cooking a whole turkey!
Here’s to a day of great food, good company, and no judgment on seconds.
Thanksgiving indulging
Leaves are falling, autumn is calling
Happy Winesgiving
I’m ready to season the day.
Gourd times
You’ve foiled my plans for taking home leftovers.
Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.
Gobble ‘til you wobble
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a yam!
Hap-pie Thanksgiving!
Thankful for friends like you – especially when there’s food involved.
Thankful for the ones who make life sweet
I yam what I yam
That was plucking delicious!
Wishing you a Thanksgiving that’s stuffed with blessings.
Please raise your gobble gobble goblets for a Thanksgiving toast!
I’m all corn up inside.
The maize is full of corny people.
Pumpkin spice and chill
Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with family, friends, and fun.

Hope your Thanksgiving is as wonderful as you are… and as full as your plate!
Don’t marsh my mallow this Thanksgiving.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving full of belly laughs and stretchy pants.
Thankful for you today and every day. Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope your Thanksgiving is packed with good times and great food.
Keep calm and gobble on
The gravy train
Goodness gracious, great gobbles of fire!
Fifty shades of gravy
May your Thanksgiving be filled with as much joy as your heart – and as much food as your stomach can hold.
Oh my gourd, I ate too much.
Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine
I yam legend.
Birds of a feather flock together
Beauty and the feast.
I’m plucking stuffed.
I’m on a dinner roll.
Leftovers are for quitters
Feeling berry thankful to be here.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with food, fun, and a little bit of craziness.
Hit me, gravy, one more time
This food is looking gravy-licious.

You ain’t seen stuffing yet.
Don’t stare at the turkey dressing. You’ll make him blush!
Family is the thread that holds the holiday together. Thankful for every stitch.
May your Thanksgiving be filled with good food and great company.
The gravy is calm because it knows how to simmer down.
Lets just wing it with the turkey this year.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with joy, laughter, and gravy.
We’re really plucky to have a great turkey this Thanksgiving.
Cluck it, let’s celebrate!
If our turkey was in a band, he’d play the drumsticks.
Nobody puts gravy in a corner.
We go together like turkey and gravy
I sure am plucky to be eating this meal!
I’m filling pretty full!
Hope your Thanksgiving is full of love, laughter, and leftovers.
Don’t stop be-leafing
Official occupation: couch potato
Pie plucking love this holiday
Whip, whip—hooray!
Let’s get basted!
Only have pies for this one.

You can tell the gravy is excited because it’s all stirred up.
It’s so easy to lose track of thyme during the holidays.
Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine
Don’t make fun of the turkey—it’s been roasted enough today.
The only ice cream Pilgrims can eat is rocky road.
Thankful for the generations before us and the ones growing up beside us.
“Oh Snap,” said the wishbone.
I yam who I yam.
The turkey looks a little under the feather this year.
Whatever floats your gravy boat.
Talk turkey to me
Nobody puts gravy in the corner.
Talk turkey to me
Happy Turkey Day! Let’s eat, nap, and repeat.
Gobble ’til you wobble
I’m all about that baste life!
Thankful for my chosen family
Let’s be thankful for elastic waistbands this Thanksgiving.
You could say I’m into fitness—as in, fitness scoop of mashed potatoes into my mouth.
Wishing you a day of inside jokes, shared playlists, and warm hugs.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with laughter and lots of turkey.
Here’s to a Thanksgiving full of gratitude, good times, and great food.

Dessert after the meal is the tur-key to my heart.
May gratitude find you wherever you are this Thanksgiving.
I have a crust on you!
I’m so bready for all these carbs on Thanksgiving.
Winning the wishbone is a snap!
Pure pumpkin goodness
Easy as pumpkin pie
Touchdowns, tailgates, and turkey
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