These Pumpkin Quotes Will Add a Little Spice to Your Fall Season

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The Best Pumpkin Quotes for this Fall Design by Yoora Kim

With fall comes pumpkin spice lattes, homecoming and Halloween, and all of the comfy clothes you can imagine. And while PSLs and fuzzy sweaters are *essential* to having a wonderful fall, we're a sucker for a good autumn quote. Whether you’re decorating for Halloween, carving pumpkins, or even apple picking, keep in the fall spirit with these pumpkin quotes, jokes, and puns, which btw, make for the perfect Instagram and TikTok captions.

🎃 Pumpkin Puns

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  • Pumpkin spice, spice baby

  • Life is gourd

  • What's cooking, gourd lookin'?

  • Go big or gourd home

  • I slipped on a pumpkin. It caught me off gourd

  • Let's give 'em pumpkin to talk about

  • We have nothing but gourd intentions

  • I’m a little bit of a country pumpkin

  • Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit

  • You’ve got to be pumpkin-ding me

  • Beauty is in the pie of the beholder

  • Have a gourd time on Halloween

  • Dang, you're jacked!

  • I’m on the rind 24/7

  • Carved out some time today

  • You struck a gourd with me

  • #SquashGoals

  • Patch you later!

  • Oh my gourd. I love fall

  • Orange you pumped for Halloween?

🎃 Pumpkin Quotes

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  • "I tromped through the pumpkin patch." — The Nightmare Before Christmas

  • "For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread, and spruce." — Taylor Swift

  • "Every pumpkin deserves to shine." — Marion Meister

  • “I'd say the first thing you need is … a pumpkin.” —Cinderella

  • “Jack-o'-lantern, Jack-o'-lantern. You are such a funny sight.” Jack-o'-lantern Halloween Song

  • “My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.” —Harrison Salisbury

  • "There are three things that I've learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." — Linus, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

  • "If you're ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you're good to go.Devendra Banhart

  • "Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin."Simone Schwarz-Bart

  • "Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin." Billy Corgan

  • "It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun." Garth Brooks

  • "And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing." — The Nightmare Before Christmas

  • "Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie." — Jim Davis

  • "Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle." Ray Bradbury

  • "Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people." John Oliver

  • "What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?" John Greenleaf Whittier

  • "Let's be honest: you can't celebrate fall without it's leading role: pumpkin!" Rachel Hollis

  • "Sugar and pumpkin spice and all things nice!" —a play on Robert Southey's words.

  • "But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!" Margaret Junkin Preston

🎃 Pumpkin Jokes

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  • Why was the gourd so gossipy? To give 'em pumpkin to talk about

  • Why was the jack-o'-lantern so forgetful? Because he's empty-headed

  • What does a carved pumpkin celebrate? Hollow-ween

  • Why are jack-o'-lanterns so smart? A candle makes them bright

  • What did the pumpkin say when it was asked how it's feeling? I'm vine, thanks for asking

  • What do you get when you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter? Pumpkin pi

  • Who helped the mini pumpkin cross the road? The crossing gourd

  • Where do pumpkins hold meetings? In the gourdroom.

  • What do you call a pumpkin that works at the beach? A life gourd.

  • What do you call a pumpkin that can slam-dunk a basketball? Michael Gourdan.

  • What is a pumpkin's favorite sport? Squash.

  • What's a pumpkin's favorite genre? Pulp fiction.

  • Why was the jack-o'-lantern afraid? It had no guts.

  • Why was Cinderella bad at football? Because she had a pumpkin for a coach.

  • Why did the pumpkin take a detour? To avoid a seedy part of town.

  • What did the pumpkins say at happy hour? Let's get smashed.

  • How does a pumpkin listen to Halloween music? On vine-yl.

  • What did the queasy pumpkin say? I don't feel so gourd.

  • How did the jack-o'-lantern quit smoking? The pumpkin patch.

  • What did the pumpkin say to its carver? Cut it out!

  • What do surfers say on Halloween? Gourd vibes only, bro.

  • How do you mend a jack-o'-lantern? With a pumpkin patch.

  • What do you call an athletic pumpkin? A jock o' lantern.

  • What Do You Get When You Drop a Pumpkin? You get squash!

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