There is plenty to say about a holiday as social and family-oriented as Thanksgiving but sometimes it is still nice to keep it brief, which is why we have gathered all the best short thanksgiving captions for you to share. And if you’re looking for short Thanksgiving quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Thanksgiving Captions and Quotes
Not to get too corny, but this Thanksgiving food is amaizeing.
Happy Thanksgiving! Count your blessings, not your calories.
“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.” — Todd Stocker
Family, turkey, and football — oh my!
Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with love, laughter, and lots of pie!
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” — Ralph H. Blum
“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.” — Rita Rudner
Turkey, gravy, beans and rolls. Let me see that casserole.
Can you be-leaf that all this food is for Thanksgiving?
Feast your eyes on this glorious Thanksgiving spread.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving that’s stuffed with blessings.
Thanksgiving dinner was made all in a holi-day’s work.
Stop, drop, and pass the rolls!
Cluck it, let’s celebrate!
May your Thanksgiving be as wonderful as you are.
Give thanks and eat pie
Can you be-leaf that all this food is for Thanksgiving?
Because you know I’m all about that baste
Pie plucking love this holiday
This meal is pumpkin special.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day
I’m riding the gravy train to being stuffed.
Pour some gravy on me.
Because you know I’m all about that baste
The only ice cream Pilgrims can eat is rocky road.
Winning the wishbone is a snap!
Cluck it, let’s celebrate!
Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with lots of love and pie. Mostly pie.
Thankful for elastic waistbands
I’m pie-ning for you.
Gobble ’til you wobble
I’m ready to talk turkey all evening.
I’m all about that baste life!
Let the gourd times roll
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” — Dalai Lama
Thankful for family, food, and fun times. Let the feasting begin!
Corn in the U.S.A!
May gratitude find you wherever you are this Thanksgiving.
Autumn leaves and pumpkins please
Here’s to a Thanksgiving full of gratitude, good times, and great food.
It’s all or stuffing with the Thanksgiving feast.
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s make some epic holiday memories.
Let’s get basted!
You thought Thanksgiving was over? You ain’t seen stuffing yet!
I yam who I yam.
I sure am plucky to be eating this meal!
Dessert after the meal is the tur-key to my heart.
Here’s to family, friends, and food coma. Another great year coming up!
Eat, drink, and cranberry
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a yam!
The turkey looks a little under the feather this year.
Oh my gourd, I’m stuffed.
Gobble gobble! Is it time for seconds yet?!
Feeling berry thankful to be here.
I’m ready to season the day.
Whatever floats your gravy boat.
Not to be corny, but I’m feeling thankful
Hi, it’s so rice to meet you!
Thankful, blessed, and mashed potato obsessed
Only have pies for this one.
Here’s to family arguments that end with dessert, not tears.
I yam what I yam
I’ve got stuffing to hide!
“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” — Robert Caspar Lintner
I’m thankful to have a family who takes eating as seriously as I do
Short Thanksgiving Quotes
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” — Erma Bombeck
Gratitude turns what we have into enough. And it turns bad into kinda OK for now.
“Count your blessings. Focus on what you’ve got. Spread the positive vibes.” — Jyoti Patel
All you knead is love and pumpkin pie
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” — George Bernard Shaw
Baste. Thanksgiving. Ever.
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with family, friends, and fun.
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” — W. Clement Stone
It’s turkey time
Wishing you food comas and football victories today.
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” — William Blake
Let’s get basted this Thanksgiving!
May your stuffing be as fluffy as your sense of humor.
I’ve got stuffing to lose.
Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life.
Stop, drop, and pass the rolls
Gobble ‘til you wobble
Sending you laughter, leftovers, and zero kitchen disasters this holiday season.
Beauty and the feast.
Don’t stare at the turkey dressing. You’ll make him blush!
Touchdowns, tailgates, and turkey
Thankful today and every day
It doesn’t get any butter than this.
Winner, winner, turkey dinner
This meal can’t get any butter.
Pie love you guys. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!
Last but not feast.
Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth
This food is looking gravy-licious.
Go big or gourd home
The gravy train
All you knead is love — and pumpkin pie
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson
Eat, drink, and start the season of merry with cranberry!
You can tell the gravy is excited because it’s all stirred up.
“Embrace every new day with gratitude, hope and love.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
“Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” — Gertrude Stein
You ain’t seen stuffing yet.
May no one bring up politics at your Thanksgiving dinner.
And they lived apple-y ever after
Keep calm and pass the gravy.
May your Thanksgiving be merry, your turkey juicy, and your pie plentiful.
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — William Wordsworth
Let’s hope this Thanksgiving reminds us why we’re always thankful for elastic waistbands!
Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine
Oh my gourd-ness, I love Thanksgiving
There was no fowl play involved in the carving of this turkey.
Here’s to the traditions that ground us and the people who lift us.
Thanksgiving dinner spread always smells fowl.
May your Thanksgiving be filled with good food and great company.
Will I eat leftovers for a week? I cran, and I will.
“Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving.” — Mike Connolly
Goodness gracious, great gobbles of fire!
Don’t be a jerky, eat some turkey
Gravy, I love your way.
Nobody puts gravy in the corner
Hey, that turkey wishbone is doing its best—give it a break.
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s get our gobble on.
You crack me up like a wishbone!
May your heart be as warm as your kitchen this Thanksgiving!
Much ado about stuffing.
I like big bundts and I cannot lie.
At a certain point, pumpkins got to give!
May your heart be as full as your plate this Thanksgiving!
Friends who feast together, stay together.
Happy Turkey Day! Hope your holiday is deliciously fun.
Feast your eyes on the Friendsgiving fam
Let’s squash the family drama today.
Wine not have another glass?
You’re the apple of my pie.
This turkey is thankful for vegetarians.
I cran and I will go back for seconds
Don’t stop be-leafing
This wine pairs well with a crazy family
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater
Food tastes better when shared
Good vibes and apple pies.
Is butter(ball) a carb?
We go together like turkey and gravy
Thankful for friends that turned into family
Whatever floats your gravy boat.
“Arrgh,” says the pie-rate.
Don’t forget to squash up for Thanksgiving dinner.
Nobody puts gravy in the corner.
Autumn skies and pumpkin pies
Eat, drink, and cranberry!
Pumpkin season has begun
Gobble till you wobble! Happy Thanksgiving to the best family ever.
“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.” — GZA
Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs
“Of all of the food filled holidays, Thanksgiving reigns king in the United States.” — Gia Scott
“Oh Snap,” said the wishbone.
Don’t marsh my mallow this Thanksgiving.
Let’s get basted!
You’re the gravy to my mashed potatoes.
Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs
Thanksgiving; is the day that reminds you why you moved so far away from your family!
Hope your Thanksgiving is as wonderful as you are… and as full as your plate!
This meal is the cranberry on top.
Gourd times
May your Thanksgiving be as warm and wonderful as you are.
Birds of a feather flock together
Wishing you a Thanksgiving full of belly laughs and stretchy pants.
Gobble ’til you wobble.
Thankful, blessed, and pumpkin-obsessed. Hope you are too, my brother!
Here’s the one photo we got before the food coma hit…
Let’s talk turkey
Family may not see pie to pie, but we sure do love Thanksgiving.
There’s just pumpkin about the way you look tonight.
This turkey is poultry in motion.
Long sleeves and autumn leaves
Silence of the yams.
Thanksgiving is plucking awesome
Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with joy, laughter, and gravy.
Pie am so grateful for dessert.
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” — Charles Spurgeon
The only ice cream Pilgrims can eat is rocky road.
Roll out!
Silence of the yams.
Casse-rollin’ with the fam!
When it doubt, gravy it out!
Turkey, gravy, beans and rolls. Let me see that casserole.
May neither your turkey nor your conversation be dry this Thanksgiving.
Thankful for you today and every day. Happy Thanksgiving!
A family that eats together, stays together
May the larger part of the wishbone be in your favor this Thanksgiving!
I sure am plucky to be eating this meal!
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” — Oscar Wilde
Nobody puts gravy in a corner.
Thankful for my chosen family
Oh my gourd, I ate too much.
Hope your Thanksgiving is as sweet as the pumpkin pie and as fun as the wishbone fight!
Family, turkey, and football — oh my!
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” — Roy T. Bennett
I was corn this way!
Nobody puts gravy in the corner
If you give the turkey coffee, it’ll be a perky!
I will eat all of this food all pie myself.
Easy as pumpkin pie
Pie really love you.
Life’s gourd, and then you pie.
Don’t mess with us, or we’ll show you how we casser-roll.
I’m on a dinner roll.
Today, we’re all thankful for the invention of elastic waistbands.
“Thanksgiving creates abundance.” — Ann Voskamp
Let’s get this bread. (And butter.)
Gourd your loins!
I’m plucking stuffed.
Stuffing is the tur-key to my heart.
May your day be filled with turkey, touchdown passes and plenty of reasons to be thankful.
May your Thanksgiving be a gentle reminder of all that’s good.
Great times, even better company
“Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.” — Ann Voskamp
Me: “I can’t eat another bite!” Also me: “Did you say pie?
I’m carbo-loading…for Black Friday.
The dad jokes are plucking hilarious!
May your mashed potatoes be lump-free and your wine glass never empty.
Eat, drink and cranberry.
Official occupation: couch potato
You’ve got to be pumpkin-ding me!
Pumpkin spice and chill
“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden
This Thanksgiving, count your blessings, not your calories!
“Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftover in aluminum foil and throw them out.” — Nicole Hollander
Wishing you peace, comfort, and a heart full of thanks.
Can’t nobody tell me stuffin’
May the turkey leg be yours this Thanksgiving!
It doesn’t get any butter than this
What a cluster pluck
Happy Turkey Day! Let’s eat, nap, and repeat.
Fifty shades of gravy
I’m a little bit of a country pumpkin
Eat hard, nap harder
Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about
We’re having a yam good time.
Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is my jam!
This turkey will make you fowl with delight.
Have a gobble-tastic Thanksgiving filled with chaos and cranberry sauce.
Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.
The maize is full of corny people.
Don’t whine, drink some wine!
Can someone pick up the turkey’s phone? It’s winging.
There’s no need for a wine glass when you’ve got a gobble-let!
Hope your Thanksgiving is packed with good times and great food.
I’m riding the gravy train to being stuffed.
You’ve foiled my plans for taking home leftovers.
I love when you talk turkey to me.
Thyme flies when you’re cooking a whole turkey!
“‘Enough’ is a feast.” — Buddhist proverb
“Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.” — Aristotle
I only have pies for you.
Thankful for you, even if we don’t say it often enough.
Bready for seconds!
“Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.” — Eric Samuel Timm
Thanksgiving. Bringing out the best in family dysfunction since 1863
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” — Aesop
Autumn snuggles and Thanksgiving cuddles with you is the best.
I’m filling pretty full!
Time to gobble ’til you wobble.
May your turkey be moist and your stuffing be just right. Happy Thanksgiving!
“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” — Dalai Lama
Hoping your day is as rich in joy as your table is in pie.
The gravy is calm because it knows how to simmer down.
I’m filling pretty full!
The only thing corny about Thanksgiving is cornbread.
Don’t mess with us, or we’ll show you how we casser-roll.
This Thanksgiving, we hope your dinner is delicious enough to make the traffic worth it.
Pumpkin is the spice of life
Let’s be thankful for elastic waistbands this Thanksgiving.
“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.” — Thomas Goodwin
You call it chaos. We call it family.
You know I was corn to be wild.
Grateful, thankful, blessed
“I know what I’m having for Thanksgiving and it ain’t turkey.” — Anthony T. Hincks
Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth
I can’t make everyone happy—I’m not pumpkin spice!
A happy heart is a thankful heart
I gobbled all of it up!
More rolls? You butter believe it
It’s leg day
Talk turkey to me
There’s always something to be thankful for
Zero plucks given
Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” — C.S. Lewis
Leaves are falling, autumn is calling
My gobble-let overfloweth
Give thanks and pass the mashed potatoes
Wishing you a Thanksgiving that’s as sweet as pumpkin pie.
Easy as pie!
This food is truly off the stuffing charts!
May you eat as much turkey as you want this Thanksgiving.
Eat, drink and be cranberry.
Sending you warmth and well wishes across the miles.
There’s pumpkin about Thanksgiving that I love so much.
Winner, winner, turkey dinner
Family, food, and fun – what more could we ask for? Happy Thanksgiving!
Feeling saucy.
Eat, drink, and be thankful
Old habits pie hard.
If our turkey was in a band, he’d play the drumsticks.
Whip, whip—hooray!
I haven’t tripped, but here I am in the fall
I’m all corn up inside.
This corn is simply a-maize-ing.
You gotta go all or stuffing on Thanksgiving.
Pure pumpkin goodness
Leftovers are for quitters
Let’s talk turkey
Happy Winesgiving
Squash goals.
Feast mode
B-autumns up
Thank you for all the laughter this year, let’s double it for the next one.
Lets just wing it with the turkey this year.
Why don’t turkeys eat on Thanksgiving? They’re stuffed.
“Gratitude is a feedback loop that will show you where you are thriving.” — Danielle LaPorte
“No matter what our circumstances, we can find a reason to be thankful.” — David Jeremiah
Silence of the yams.
I hope your turkey is as plump as you are this Thanksgiving.
Keep calm and gobble on
Don’t let any Thanksgiving turkey go to baste.
There’s pumpkin about Thanksgiving that I love so much.
Don’t let the holidays gobble up your sanity.
I can’t eat another bite. Oh look, pie!
“Pie makes everybody happy.” — Laurie Halse Anderson
Toasted, roasted, baked, and done! Hope your Thanksgiving is loads of fun
I yam legend.
Thanksgiving indulging
Here’s to a day of great food, good company, and no judgment on seconds.
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” — Maya Angelou
May your family be thankful you didn’t burn the turkey this year.
Current status: stuffed like a turkey
We’re even more thankful for you than we are for gravy.
Hap-pie Thanksgiving!
Happy Turkey Day! I hope you don’t have to loosen your belt too much!
I hope your Thanksgiving is stuffed full of love and laughter.
It’s all gravy, baby
We go together like turkey and gravy
Happy Piesgiving, folks!
Hit me, gravy, one more time
Hope your Thanksgiving is full of love, laughter, and second helpings.
Talk turkey to me
I have a crust on you!
In every life, a little cranberry must fall.
So that is it for our list of Short Thanksgiving Captions and Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Funny Thanksgiving Wishes, Short Thanksgiving Puns, Short Gratitude Quotes and Short Funny Thanksgiving Quotes.
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