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Short Thanksgiving Sayings to Simply Share the Gratitude

Whether you’re the type that likes a party on Thanksgiving or simply quiet reflection with the family, we have put together a list of 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.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Short Thanksgiving Sayings

Thankful for family, food, and fun times. Let the feasting begin!

Let’s talk turkey

What comes first: The poul-tree or the Christmas tree.

Casse-rollin’ with the fam!

This meal is the cranberry on top.

Autumn leaves and pumpkins please

Easy as pie!

Hope your Thanksgiving is as awesome as you are.

Winner, winner, turkey dinner

Thanksgiving indulging

B-autumns up

Thankful for the generations before us and the ones growing up beside us.

Pie plucking love this holiday

Gobble ‘til you wobble

Wine not have another glass?

Roll out!

Family may not see pie to pie, but we sure do love Thanksgiving.

Hey, that turkey wishbone is doing its best—give it a break.

Official occupation: couch potato

Gobble gobble! Here’s to a Thanksgiving stuffed with fun.

Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with lots of love and pie. Mostly pie.

Gobble ’til you wobble.

Lets just wing it with the turkey this year.

I’m so bready for all these carbs on Thanksgiving.

Cluck it, let’s celebrate!

This meal can’t get any butter.

Hap-pie Thanksgiving!

Thankful, blessed, and mashed potato obsessed

This turkey will make you fowl with delight.

May your Thanksgiving be full of quiet moments, loud laughter, and lasting memories.

At a certain point, pumpkins got to give!

Happy Turkey Day! Let’s eat until we pass out.

The maize is full of corny people.

Thyme flies when you’re cooking a whole turkey!

Here’s to a Thanksgiving full of gratitude, good times, and great food.

Nobody puts gravy in the corner

Touchdowns, tailgates, and turkey

Hope your Thanksgiving is as wonderful as you are… and as full as your plate!

Eat, drink and cranberry.

Gourd your loins!

Pumpkin is the spice of life

Grateful for the chaos, the comfort, and the unconditional love of family.

Beauty and the feast.

We go together like turkey and gravy

If our turkey was in a band, he’d play the drumsticks.

Here’s to chosen family and the joy of being together.

Thankful for the love that lives in every shared meal and every old story retold.

Feast your eyes on this glorious Thanksgiving spread.

Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is my jam!

Here’s to the traditions we keep and the new ones we create together.

Thankful for the late-night chats, the spontaneous road trips, and the unwavering support.

Hope your Thanksgiving is full of love, laughter, and leftovers.

I yam legend.

Turkey, gravy, beans and rolls. Let me see that casserole.

I only have pies for you.

May your Thanksgiving be as wonderful as you are.

There’s always something to be thankful for

This wine pairs well with a crazy family

Only have pies for this one.

More rolls? You butter believe it

Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine

I’m on a dinner roll.

We’re really plucky to have a great turkey this Thanksgiving.

When it doubt, gravy it out!

Gravy, I love your way.

Grateful, thankful, blessed

Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with joy, laughter, and gravy.

Thyme flies when you’re cooking a whole turkey!

Don’t marsh my mallow this Thanksgiving.

Much ado about stuffing.

Happy Thanksgiving! May your gravy be smooth and your turkey perfectly cooked.

Let’s get this bread. (And butter.)

I’m thankful to have a family who takes eating as seriously as I do

Don’t let the turkey fool you. He’s got a baste of spades in his giblets.

May your Thanksgiving be filled with as much joy as your heart – and as much food as your stomach can hold.

Hope your Thanksgiving is full of love, laughter, and second helpings.

Wishing you peace, comfort, and a heart full of thanks.

Hope your Thanksgiving is stuffed with happiness and gravy.

Silence of the yams.

Hope your Thanksgiving is packed with good times and great food.

Thankful for you today and every day. Happy Thanksgiving!

Grateful for the texts, the talks, and the tacos—every moment matters.

Thankful for my chosen family

It doesn’t get any butter than this

Family is the thread that holds the holiday together. Thankful for every stitch.

That was plucking delicious!

Talk turkey to me

May gratitude find you wherever you are this Thanksgiving.

It’s so easy to lose track of thyme during the holidays.

It doesn’t get any butter than this.

I’m plucking stuffed.

I love when you talk turkey to me.

I’m pie-ning for you.

You thought Thanksgiving was over? You ain’t seen stuffing yet!

Leaves are falling, autumn is calling

You’re the apple of my pie.

Can you be-leaf that all this food is for Thanksgiving?

Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with food, fun, and a little bit of craziness.

Eat hard, nap harder

Talk turkey to me

Hoping your day is as rich in joy as your table is in pie.

Wishing you a Thanksgiving that’s as sweet as pumpkin pie.

Wishing you a holiday full of mashed potatoes and minimal family drama.

Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth

Gobble till you wobble! Happy Thanksgiving to the best family ever.

May your Thanksgiving be filled with laughter, love, and second helpings.

Because you know I’m all about that baste

May your home be filled with laughter, your table with favorites, and your hearts with gratitude.

We all have something in common with the turkey today: We’re stuffed.

Oh my gourd-ness, I love Thanksgiving

The only thing corny about Thanksgiving is cornbread.

You ain’t seen stuffing yet.

Feeling berry thankful to be here.

My gobble-let overfloweth

Turkey, gravy, beans and rolls. Let me see that casserole.

Baste. Thanksgiving. Ever.

Thankful for the friends who turn ordinary days into unforgettable memories.

Give thanks and eat pie

Feast mode

This turkey is thankful for vegetarians.

You crack me up like a wishbone!

I’ve got stuffing to hide!

You make the hard days easier and the good days even better—grateful for you.

I can’t eat another bite. Oh look, pie!

Good vibes and apple pies.

Autumn skies and pumpkin pies

And they lived apple-y ever after

A happy heart is a thankful heart

The gravy is calm because it knows how to simmer down.

Keep calm and gobble on

A good Thanksgiving meal is the tur-key to my heart.

Eat, drink, and be thankful

I’m riding the gravy train to being stuffed.

It’s all filling and games until you have to unbutton your pants.

Gobble till you wobble! Have a great Thanksgiving!

Let the gourd times roll

May your Thanksgiving be full of fun, food, and fantastic memories.

We’re serving the turkey’s favorite dessert this year: peach gobbler!

Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s eat, drink, and be thankful.

I’m ready to season the day.

Fitness? More like fitness whole turkey in my mouth

Thanksgiving dinner was made all in a holi-day’s work.

We’re trading in the Christmas tree for poul-tree this year.

Stop, drop, and pass the rolls

Pie am so grateful for dessert.

Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s get our gobble on.

Here’s to a day of great food, good company, and no judgment on seconds.

The gravy train

Family, food, and fun – what more could we ask for? Happy Thanksgiving!

Not to get too corny, but this Thanksgiving food is amaizeing.

There’s just pumpkin about the way you look tonight.

Hi, it’s so rice to meet you!

In every life, a little cranberry must fall.

Nobody puts gravy in a corner.

If you give the turkey coffee, it’ll be a perky!

Old habits pie hard.

Eat, drink and be cranberry.

Pumpkin season has begun

Family, turkey, and football — oh my!

Gourd times

Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with good food, good times, and good memories.

Don’t stop be-leafing

Wishing you a day of inside jokes, shared playlists, and warm hugs.

The turkey looks a little under the feather this year.

Wishing you a day of hugs, home-cooked goodness, and heartfelt connection.

Here’s the one photo we got before the food coma hit…

I haven’t tripped, but here I am in the fall

I’ve got stuffing to lose.

Eat, drink, and cranberry!

Dessert after the meal is the tur-key to my heart.

Happy Piesgiving, folks!

Here’s to friendship that feels like home and holidays that feel like healing.

Let’s be thankful for elastic waistbands this Thanksgiving.

Feeling saucy.

Not to be corny, but I’m feeling thankful

I sure am plucky to be eating this meal!

Happy Winesgiving

“Oh Snap,” said the wishbone.

I’m riding the gravy train to being stuffed.

I will eat all of this food all pie myself.

Let’s get basted this Thanksgiving!

Don’t make fun of the turkey—it’s been roasted enough today.

What a cluster pluck

I’m carbo-loading…for Black Friday.

It’s leg day

Happy Thanksgiving! May your feast be delicious and your naps be long.

I yam who I yam.

It’s all gravy, baby

The dad jokes are plucking hilarious!

I was corn this way!

You know I was corn to be wild.

Wishing you a Thanksgiving overflowing with joy and leftovers.

Don’t let any Thanksgiving turkey go to baste.

I like big bundts and I cannot lie.

Feeling all the love and gratitude this Thanksgiving

You gotta go all or stuffing on Thanksgiving.

Corn in the U.S.A!

Pie really love you.

Bready for seconds!

May your table be surrounded by people who get you and food that comforts you.

It’s turkey time

This turkey is poultry in motion.

We go together like turkey and gravy

Wishing you a Thanksgiving full of belly laughs and stretchy pants.

Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater

This food is looking gravy-licious.

You’ve foiled my plans for taking home leftovers.

A family that eats together, stays together

Oh my gourd, I ate too much.

May your Thanksgiving be a gentle reminder of all that’s good.

Food tastes better when shared

You’re the gravy to my mashed potatoes.

Sending you warmth and well wishes across the miles.

May your Thanksgiving be merry, your turkey juicy, and your pie plentiful.

I’m all about that baste life!

Life’s gourd, and then you pie.

Let’s eat, drink, and be thankful. Happy Thanksgiving, friend!

Gobble ’til you wobble

Pour some gravy on me.

Don’t stare at the turkey dressing. You’ll make him blush!

Leftovers are for quitters

This meal is pumpkin special.

To the ones who know us best and love us anyway—Happy Thanksgiving.

Easy as pumpkin pie

Grateful for every moment spent with the people who feel like home.

Feeling thankful and a little bit stuffed

I’m filling pretty full!

Go big or gourd home

Why don’t turkeys eat on Thanksgiving? They’re stuffed.

I’m all corn up inside.

Happy Turkey Day! Let’s eat, nap, and repeat.

I cran and I will go back for seconds

Wishing you a Thanksgiving that’s stuffed with blessings.

I yam what I yam

Hope your Thanksgiving is filled with family, friends, and fun.

Thanksgiving dinner spread always smells fowl.

Let’s squash the family drama today.

There was no fowl play involved in the carving of this turkey.

Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s make some epic holiday memories.

You can tell the gravy is excited because it’s all stirred up.

Nobody puts gravy in the corner.

It’s all or stuffing with the Thanksgiving feast.

I’m a little bit of a country pumpkin

Let’s get basted!

Eat, drink and be thankful

Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs

Give thanks and pass the mashed potatoes

Winning the wishbone is a snap!

Current status: stuffed like a turkey

Thanksgiving is plucking awesome

May your Friendsgiving be full of laughter, leftovers, and love.

Don’t be a jerky, eat some turkey

All you knead is love — and pumpkin pie

Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with laughter and lots of turkey.

Thankful for the ones who make life sweet

Thanksgiving: A time to count blessings, not carbs

You could say I’m into fitness—as in, fitness scoop of mashed potatoes into my mouth.

Goodness gracious, great gobbles of fire!

You’ve got to be pumpkin-ding me!

Family, food and gratitude—my favorite things

There’s no need for a wine glass when you’ve got a gobble-let!

Me: “I can’t eat another bite!” Also me: “Did you say pie?

Here’s to the traditions that ground us and the people who lift us.

Birds of a feather flock together

May your Thanksgiving be filled with good food and great company.

Pure pumpkin goodness

I’m filling pretty full!

All you knead is love and pumpkin pie

Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about

Zero plucks given

Can someone pick up the turkey’s phone? It’s winging.

Stuffing is the tur-key to my heart.

Whip, whip—hooray!

Thankful for friends like you – especially when there’s food involved.

Happy Turkey Day! Hope your holiday is deliciously fun.

May your turkey be juicy and your pies be endless. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend!

Thankful for elastic waistbands

Gratitude is the best attitude

Silence of the yams.

May your turkey be moist and your stuffing be just right. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thankful for friends that turned into family

Family, turkey, and football — oh my!

Squash goals.

This food is truly off the stuffing charts!

“Arrgh,” says the pie-rate.

Don’t mess with us, or we’ll show you how we casser-roll.

Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine

I have a crust on you!

There’s pumpkin about Thanksgiving that I love so much.

We’re having a yam good time.

I always feel a lot butter on Thanksgiving.

Long sleeves and autumn leaves

Eat, drink, and cranberry

Pumpkin spice and chill

Oh my gourd, I’m stuffed.

Please raise your gobble gobble goblets for a Thanksgiving toast!

This turkey is all carved up! Do you suspect fowl play?

Is butter(ball) a carb?

I gobbled all of it up!

Grateful for the simple things—sunlight, kindness, and the people who make life feel whole.

You call it chaos. We call it family.

Let’s get basted!

May your Thanksgiving be full of the kind of love that only family can give.

Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.

Stop, drop, and pass the rolls!

Whatever floats your gravy boat.

Thankful for you, even if we don’t say it often enough.

Whatever floats your gravy boat.

Great times, even better company

Feast your eyes on the Friendsgiving fam

I can’t make everyone happy—I’m not pumpkin spice!

Don’t whine, drink some wine!

The only ice cream Pilgrims can eat is rocky road.

Hit me, gravy, one more time

Last but not feast.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a yam!

Wishing you a season filled with warmth, good food, and even better company.

I’m ready to talk turkey all evening.

Thankful today and every day

Don’t forget to squash up for Thanksgiving dinner.

Let’s talk turkey

Will I eat leftovers for a week? I cran, and I will.

Fifty shades of gravy

Can’t nobody tell me stuffin’

This corn is simply a-maize-ing.

Thankful for today and all the tomorrows

Winner, winner, turkey dinner

Because you know I’m all about that baste

Don’t let the holidays gobble up your sanity.

Nobody puts gravy in the corner

To the ones who make life better just by being in it—thank you.

So that is it for our list of Short Thanksgiving Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!

For more great ideas, check out our other lists of Happy Thanksgiving Sayings and Pumpkin Carving Captions.

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About the Author

Laynni Deir

I am Laynni Deir, writer and editor of Purely Lists. There are times when you are looking for inspiration or aren’t sure what to say and I am committed to providing lists of the best quotes, sayings, messages, puns or captions for any occasion. Whether you are looking for a positive quote, a message for a card, a fun saying for a letter board or caption for your next post or story, you will find the perfect option here.

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