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Hands down, fall is my favorite season and I can never get enough of everything pumpkin – yummy pumpkin pie, sweet-smelling pumpkin spice candles, fun pumpkin decorating and carving.

Above all, I love our family outings to a pumpkin patch where we would take lots of pictures and hunt for the most unusual pumpkins.

Here are some cute and funny jack-o’-lantern pumpkin captions and quotes. As well as some autumn quotes to inspire you to get into that fabulous fall season and make sure you find the best gourd on the pumpkin patch.

Best Jack-o'-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes for Instagram

1. “What did the Jack-o’-lantern say before the party? Let’s get lit!”

2. “Jack of all lanterns.”

3. “The Jack-o’-lantern follows me with tapered, glowing eyes. His yellow teeth grin evilly. His cackle I despise.” Richelle E. Goodrich 

4. “And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.” —  Tim Burton

5. “You don’t know Jack-o’-lantern.” 

6. “How did the jack-o’-lantern quit smoking? The pumpkin patch.”

7. “Why is the jack-o’-lantern so forgetful? Because he is empty-headed.”

8. “Why are jack-o’-lanterns so smart? A candle makes them bright.”

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Best Jack-o’-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes for Instagram 

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Best Jack-o’-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes for Instagram

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

10. “May Jack-o’-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future’s veil and show, What fate now holds for you?”Jerry Smith

11. “Don’t be a jerk-o-lantern.”

12. “He’s a Jack of all trades, master of none.”

13. “Why did everyone think the Jack-o-Lantern was evil? It had a wicked candle inside it.”

14. “This Jack-o’-lantern is gonna be lit.”

15. “Dang, you’re jacked!”

16. “How do you mend a broken Jack-o’-lantern?” With a pumpkin patch!”

17. “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

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18. “Let’s be honest: you can’t celebrate fall without its leading role: pumpkin!”Rachel Hollis

19. “Advice from a Pumpkin: Be well-rounded.”

20. “I was born a pumpkin, I will live a pumpkin, and I will die a pumpkin.” —  Daniel Webster

21. “There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.”

22. “Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you’re looking for a knife.” —  Dana Gould

23. “Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.”Simone Schwarz-Bart

24. “There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people … religion, politics, and the great pumpkin.”Charles M. Shulz

25. “Hey, have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

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Best Pumpkin Captions and Quotes for Instagram

26. “There he is. There he is. It’s the Great Pumpkin.”It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

27. “Cause I’m Peter, Peter the Pumpkin Eater And the party has just begun.”Garth Brooks

28. “Pumpkin light, Pumpkin bright, first pumpkin I see tonight. Wish I may, wish I might, wish I had a prizewinner tonight.” — Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin

29. “And she needed to surf some of the pregnancy websites she’d found when she first realized she was pregnant. Her friends with kids said there was lots of good information available on the sites. But had they meant the slideshow labeled “Poppy seed to pumpkin: how big is your baby”? Imagining her unborn child as an ear of corn was odd enough. But would she ever get used to the thought that by the end of this pregnancy, she’d be carrying around something–someone–the size of a small pumpkin?”Beth K. Vogt

30. “Anna shuddered. “Orange is not the colour of seduction, Christopher. Orange is the colour of despair, and pumpkins.” — Cassandra Clare

31. “One Pumpkin a day keeps the witches away.”

32. “Stressed, blessed and Pumpkin obsessed.”

Funny Jack-o'-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

33. “All I can say of the matter is—That he has either a pumpkin for his head—or a pippin for his heart,—and whenever he is dissected ’twill be found so.”Laurence Sterne

34. “Pumped for pumpkins!”

35. “How does a pumpkin listen to Halloween music? On vine-yl.”

36. “What do you get when you drop a pumpkin? Squash!”

37. “Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.”Harland Williams

38. “Smashing pumpkins. Wink wink.”

39. “This pumpkin’s got a lot of guts.”

40. “We got our Seasonal bulk in at work today and got Pumpkin Spice Motor Oil. It’s for Autumnmobiles.”

41. “Say hollow to my little friend.”

42. “A man my age has nothing left to do but move to the country and grow big pumpkins.” — President Chester A. Arthur

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Funny Jack-o’-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

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Funny Jack-o’-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

43. “All I can say of the matter is—That he has either a pumpkin for his head—or a pippin for his heart,—and whenever he is dissected ’twill be found so.”Laurence Sterne

44. “Pumped for pumpkins!”

45. “How does a pumpkin listen to Halloween music? On vine-yl.”

46. “What do you get when you drop a pumpkin? Squash!”

47. “Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.”Harland Williams

48. “Smashing pumpkins. Wink wink.”

49. “This pumpkin’s got a lot of guts.”

50. “Say hollow to my little friend.”

51. “A man my age has nothing left to do but move to the country and grow big pumpkins.” — President Chester A. Arthur

52. “The latte was madly in love; he felt like there was Pumpkin in the air.”

53. “Unless it’s pumpkin spice, I don’t give a frappe.”

Cute Jack-o'-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

54. “Cutest pumpkins in the patch.”

55. “Pumpkin is the spice of life.”

56. “Pumpkin wishes and candy corn kisses.”

57. “I’m Mommy’s little pumpkin!”

58. “Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes.”

59. “I heard that pumpkin a day keeps the goblins away.”

60. “Orange you pumped for autumn?”

61. “You’ll always be my boo.”

62. “Chilling with the cutest little Pumpkins.”

63. “I never met a pumpkin I didn’t like.”

64. “Gourd of the rings.”

65. “The pumpkin of my pie.”

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Cute Jack-o’-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

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Inspirational Pumpkin Jack-o'-lantern Captions and Quotes for Instagram

66. “When life gives you pumpkins, make pie.” 

67. “It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.” — Alexander McCall Smith

68. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”Henry David Thoreau

69. “There were things that Pumpkin Head—now not Pumpkin Head anymore—had to do to be a girl. He had to be careful how he dressed, and how he acted. He had to be careful how he talked, and he always had to be calm. He was very frightened of what would happen if he didn’t stay calm. For his face was really just a wonderful plastic one. The real Pumpkin Head was still inside, locked in, waiting to come out.”Al Sarrantonio

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Inspirational Pumpkin Jack-o’-lantern Captions and Quotes for Instagram

Jack-o'-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

Inspirational Pumpkin Jack-o’-lantern Captions and Quotes for Instagram

70. “Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin, a companion who would not, after all, answer back; who would agree with everything you said, and would at the end of the day appear on your plate as a final gesture of friendship?”Alexander McCall Smith

71. “And she needed to surf some of the pregnancy websites she’d found when she first realized she was pregnant. Her friends with kids said there was lots of good information available on the sites. But had they meant the slideshow labeled “Poppy seed to pumpkin: how big is your baby”? Imagining her unborn child as an ear of corn was odd enough. But would she ever get used to the thought that by the end of this pregnancy, she’d be carrying around something–someone–the size of a small pumpkin?” — Beth K. Vogt

72. “The pumpkin itself is a symbol for mortality. Like mortals, the pumpkin seed is planted in the darkness of the earth, where it is left to search for the light. When the plant finally sprouts, it travels along the ground, as if in search of its place in the world. Then, once the pumpkin has found its place, it blossoms into a fruit that towers above all others. And when the pumpkin is ripe, it’s a veritable life-giving force.”Seth Adam Smith

Clever Witty Jack-o'-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

73. “What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter? Pumpkin Pi.”

74. “Give ’em pumpkin to talk about.”

75. “I will defend pumpkin until the day I die. It’s delicious. It’s healthy. I don’t understand the backlash.”Anna Kendrick

76. “The best number for Halloween is pumpkin pi.”

77. “If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go.”Devendra Banhart

78. “There were things that Pumpkin Head—now not Pumpkin Head anymore—had to do to be a girl. He had to be careful how he dressed, and how he acted. He had to be careful how he talked, and he always had to be calm. He was very frightened of what would happen if he didn’t stay calm. For his face was really just a wonderful plastic one. The real Pumpkin Head was still inside, locked in, waiting to come out.” — Al Sarrantonio

Jack-o'-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

Clever Witty Jack-o’-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

Jack-o'-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

Inspirational Jack-o’-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes for Instagram

79. “Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins waiting for heads to drop on.”Neil Gaiman

80. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”Henry David Thoreau

81. “I heard a pumpkin a day keeps the goblins away.”

82. “Why was the gourd so gossip-y? To give ’em pumpkin’ to talk about.”

83. “I’d say the first thing you need is … a pumpkin.”Cinderella

84. “How do you mend a broken Jack-o’-lantern?” With a pumpkin patch!”

Pumpkin Spice Captions and Quotes for Instagram

85. “Pumpkin is the spice of life.”

86. “Everyone was avoiding latte because Pumpkin spiced up the story and talked behind his back.”

87. “You either love Pumpkin Spice Lattes, or you’re wrong.”

88. “Do you know what’s really spooky? Not having a Pumpkin Spice Latte in the fall.”

89. “Pumpkin spice and living my best life.”

90. “Pumpkin spice season is finally here, better latte than never.”

91. “Sugar and pumpkin spice and all things nice! “

92. “I love you more than pumpkin spice latte.”

93. “Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”

94. “Life is gourd when it’s pumpkin spice season!”

95. “We got our Seasonal bulk in at work today and got Pumpkin Spice Motor Oil. It’s for Autumnmobiles.”

96. “Unless it’s pumpkin spice, I don’t give a frappe.”

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 Pumpkin Spice Captions and Quotes

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97. “At this point, my blood type is pumpkin spice.”

98. “I’m a pumpkin spice junkie.”

99. “Trick or treatin’ myself to a Pumpkin Spice Latte.”

100. “Let’s (pumpkin) spice things up!”

101. “My favorite color is pumpkin spice.”

102. “The latte was madly in love; he felt like there was Pumpkin in the air.”

103. “One more pumpkin spice latte for the books.”

104. “Keep calm and drink a pumpkin spice latte.”

105. “He was latte, as he had to pick up a pumpkin spice on his way.”

106. “You had me at pumpkin spice.”

107. “Sometimes you need to pumpkin spice up your life.”

108. “My coffee cup doesn’t lie. My blood type is pumpkin spice.”

109. “My favorite season in the world is pumpkin spice.”

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110. “Gone pumpkin pickin.”

111. “It’s Pumpkin picking day!”

112. “Follow the pumpkin patch road.”

113. “Welcome to our pumpkin patch.”

114. “I tromped through the pumpkin patch.”The Nightmare Before Christmas

115. “You are the Pumpkin I chose in the patch.”

116. “You are the cutest pumpkin in the patch.”

117. “I don’t see how a pumpkin patch could be more sincere than this one.” — It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

118. “How do you mend a broken Jack-o’-lantern?” With a pumpkin patch!”

119. “Patch you later!”

120. “You had me at Pumpkin patch.”

121. “Meet me at the Pumpkin patch.”

122. “You’re the pick of the patch.”

Scary Spooky Halloween Jack-o'-lantern Captions and Quotes

123. “What do Halloween creatures eat? Hot spider soup with pumpkin meat and toasted, no-salt, bat-wing chips, served best with Transylvania dips. A thistle-horehound salad mix has added crunch from sun-dried ticks. The plat du jour is hairy beast fried crisp in grimy goblin grease. Now, don’t forget dessert so sweet; try puss-cream pie or candied feet!”Richelle E. Goodrich

124. “Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows’ Eve…. And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an  ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the   emerging face of the full moon.”Kim Elizabeth

125. “Darkness falls across the land, The Midnight Hour is close at hand.”Rodney Lynn Temperton

127. “Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.”Ray Bradbury

128. “Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

129. “Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.”Rusty Fischer

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Scary Spooky Halloween Jack-o’-lantern Captions and Quotes

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Scary Spooky Halloween Jack-o’-lantern Captions and Quotes

130. “Trick or treat, bag of sweets, ghosts are walking down the street.”

131. “Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.”Edgar Allen Poe

132. “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”J.K. Rowling

133. “From ghoulish and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!”Scottish saying

134. “I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.”Evan Peters

135. “When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween!”

136. “It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.”Vincent Price

137. “There is something haunting in the light of the moon.”Joseph Conrad

Pumpkin Pie Captions and Quotes

138. “When life gives you pumpkins, make pie.”

139. “Pumpkin pie fixes everything.”

140. “But I shall have the final laugh when Halloween is through. This pumpkin king I’ll split in half to make a pie for two.”Richelle E. Goodrich

141. “Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later.”

142. “I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”Robert Breault

143. “Pumpkin spice latte is eggnog for morning people.”John Oliver

144. “Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.”Terri Guillemets

145. “Sometimes I wake up in the morning thinking about pumpkin pie.”Damien Echols

146. “Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie soon your love will be all mine.”Jay & The Techniques

147. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”Jim Davis

148. “The pumpkin lies yellow, beneath the cold skies, it’s luscious and mellow, and ready for pies.”Walt Mason

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Pumpkin Pie Captions and Quotes

149. “I only have pies for you.”

150. “What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?”John Greenleaf Whittier

151. “O’ pumpkin pie, your time has come ’round again and I am autumnrifically happy!”Terri Guillemets

152. “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

153. “Pumpkin compote in a masa shell, she says. It’s a new recipe I’m going to try this week. So, a pumpkin tamale? You know you can just call it a pumpkin tamale. Nobody’s going to be impressed because you used some fancy words. Her mouth turns down. Thank you for the editorial. Just try it. I take a bite. It’s good. Better than I expected. The balance of cinnamon and nutmeg is perfect, a hint of allspice. And some ingredient I can’t place. Almost… coppery? But it works.”Rebecca Roanhorse

154. “There will be a cauldron of spiced hot cider, and pumpkin shortbread fingers with caramel and fudge dipping sauces as our freebies, and I’ve done plenty of special spooky treats. Ladies’ fingers, butter cookies the shape of gnarled fingers with almond fingernails and red food coloring on the stump end. I’ve got meringue ghosts and cups of “graveyard pudding,” a dark chocolate pudding layered with dark Oreo cookie crumbs, strewn with gummy worms, and topped with a cookie tombstone. There are chocolate tarantulas, with mini cupcake bodies and legs made out of licorice whips, sitting on spun cotton candy nests. The Pop-Tart flavors of the day are chocolate peanut butter, and pumpkin spice. The chocolate ones are in the shape of bats, and the pumpkin ones in the shape of giant candy corn with orange, yellow, and white icing. And yesterday, after finding a stash of tiny walnut-sized lady apples at the market, I made a huge batch of mini caramel apples.”Stacey Ballis

Jack-o'-lantern Pumpkin Carving and Decorating Captions and Quotes

155. “Get the latest scoop here!”

156. “What did the pumpkin say to the pumpkin carver? Cut it out!”

157. “You’ve carved out a piece of my heart.”

158. “Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.”Simone Schwarz-Bart

159. “Keep calm and carve Pumpkins.”

160. “All I can say of the matter is that he has either a pumpkin for his head or a pippin for his heart and whenever he is dissected ’twill be found so.”Laurence Sterne

161. “I’m ahead of the carve.”

162. “Let’s carve out some fun!”

163. “I carved out some time today.”

Haloween Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

164. “Halloween pumpkins aglow. Come see the show.”

165. “Have a gourd time this Halloween season.”

166. “It’s Pumpkin picking day!”

167. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.”Ann Drake

168. “Autumn is…. Finding a purpose for every pumpkin in the patch.”

169. “Oh my gourdness, it’s autumn!”

170. “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

171. “October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.”Rainbow Rowell

172. “My favorite color is October.”

173. “Everyone just wants to have a gourd time on Halloween!”

174. “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”Steve Almond

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My Little Pumpkin Captions and Quotes

175. “I’m Mommy’s little pumpkin!”

176. “You are the cutest pumpkin in the patch.”

177. “You’re my little pumpkin pie.” — Natalie Marshall 

178. “Once a pumpkin, always a pumpkin.”Billy Corgan

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179. “You really struck a gourd with me.”

180. “Hanging with my pumpkin.”

181. “You are the pick of the patch.”

182. “You are the cutest pumpkin in the patch.”

183. “Carving out some fun with bae.” 

184. “There’s no one I’d rather get lost in a pumpkin patch with than you.”

185. “I only have pies for you.”

186. “Life is gourd with you around.”

187. “You’ve pumpkin patched my heart with love.

188. “I will love you till the end of vine.”

189. “Don’t gourd breaking my heart!”

190. “You’ll always be my boo.”

191. “You are looking gourd today!”

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Romantic Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes for Instagram

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Romantic Jack-o-lantern Pumpkin Captions and Quotes for Instagram

192. “You are the pumpkin I chose in the patch.”

193. “Picked a good one.”

194. “Hello, gourd-geous.”

195. “What’s cooking, gourd looking?”

196. “Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie/Soon your love will be all mine.”Jay & The Techniques

197. “Baby gourd back!”

198. “The pumpkin of my pie.”

199. “Pumpkin pie love spending time with you.”

200. “You’re the pumpkin spice to my latte.”

201. “Once a pumpkin, always a pumpkin.”Billy Corgan

202. “You’ve carved out a piece of my heart.”

203. “I love you more than pumpkin spice latte.”

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Gourd Jack-o-lantern Captions and Quotes

204. “Gourdness gracious!”

205. “Be of gourd cheer.”

206. “Oh my gourdness, it’s autumn!”

207. “Everyone just wants to have a gourd time on Halloween!”

208. “What a gourdgeous day to spend with you.”

209. “We have nothing but gourd intentions.”

210. “Have a gourd time this Halloween season.”

211. “Life is gourd with you around.”

212. “Gourd out of town!”

213. “I have nothing but gourd intentions.”

214. “Let the gourd times roll!”

215. “Gourd vibes only.”

216. “Hello, gourd-geous.”

217. “What’s cooking, gourd looking?”

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218. “What did the queasy pumpkin say? I don’t feel so gourd.”

219. “Life is gourd.”

220. “You really struck a gourd with me.”

221. “Oh, my gourd!”

222. “Dear gourd!”

223. “What’s the pumpkin’s favorite Western? The Gourd, The Bad, and The Ugly.”

224. “Gourd of the rings.”

225. “You’re looking gourd today!”

226. “Gourdbye!”

227. “Baby gourd back!”

228. “You are a gourd luck charm.”

229. “Gourd out of my mind.”

230. “Oh my gourdness, it’s autumn!”

231. “Looking gourd-geous, darling!”

232. “Go big or gourd home!”

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