120 Cheerful Holiday Captions and Quotes for Instagram Posts

The festive season is finally here, and that means it’s time to break out the holiday decorations, sip some hot cocoa, watch your favorite Christmas movies, and post your best wintery photos to Instagram. Of course, every Instagram pic needs the perfect caption, so we’ve rounded up some of the best holiday-themed quotes to accompany your merriest photos.

These 110 Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, New Year, and Christmas captions are sure to bring a little festive cheer to your feed.

Christmas Caption Ideas

• It’s all fun and games until Santa checks the naughty list.
• Dear Santa, I can explain…
• ’Tis the season to sparkle.
• All the jingle ladies.
• Christmas calories don’t count, right?
• The tree isn’t the only thing getting lit this Christmas.
• Christmas is the one day of the year that I’m a morning person.
• RGF: resting Grinch face.
• Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.
• Consider this post my digital Christmas card.
• Eat, drink, and be merry.
• All spruced up.
• Up to snow good.
• Rebel without a Claus.
• Make it a December to remember.
• Sleigh all day.
• Bah, humbug!
• Meet me under the mistletoe.
• “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” — Marjorie Holmes
• “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” — Norman Vincent Peale
• “Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” — Washington Irving

Christmas Song Quotes

• “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” — Bing Crosby
• “Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays.” — Perry Como
• “May your days be merry and bright.” — Bing Crosby
• “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” — Andy Williams
• “Jack Frost nipping at your nose.” — Nat King Cole
• “All I want for Christmas is you.” — Mariah Carey
• “Rockin’ around the Christmas tree.” — Brenda Lee
• “Hurry down the chimney tonight.” — Eartha Kitt
• “If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel like Christmas all the time.” — Faith Hill
• “A very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Let’s hope it’s a good one, without any fear.” — John Lennon and Yoko Ono
• “I don’t know if there’ll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.” — Burl Ives
• “I know exactly what I want this year. Santa, can you hear me?” — Britney Spears
• “I’ll be home for Christmas.” — Bing Crosby
• “Have yourself a merry little Christmas.” — Judy Garland

Christmas Movie Quotes

• “Son of a nutcracker!” — “Elf”
• “Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” — “Miracle on 34th Street”
• “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.” — “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
• “So if you really love Christmas, c’mon and let it snow.” — “Love Actually”
• “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup.” — “Elf”
• “Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon which the entire kid year revolved.” — “A Christmas Story”
• “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” — “It’s a Wonderful Life”
• “It’s Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.” — “The Holiday”
• “It’s a beaut, Clark.” — “Christmas Vacation”
• “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — “Elf”
• “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.” — “The Polar Express”
• “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?” — “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
• “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” — “A Christmas Carol”
• “There’s a certain magic that comes with the very first snow. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful is bound to happen.” — Frosty the Snowman

New Year’s Caption Ideas

• 12 new chapters, 365 new chances.
• “The best is yet to come.” — Frank Sinatra
• New year, new adventures.
• Cheers to the new year!
• Sip, sip, hooray!
• Here’s to a fresh start in 2024.
• “It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day. It’s a new life, for me. And I’m feeling good.” — Nina Simone
• Find me when the clock strikes 12.
• “Thank you, next.” — Ariana Grande
• 365 days, 365 new opportunities.
• New Year. Same me. Bigger goals.
• “It’s the final countdown.” — Europe
• “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” — Ranier Maria Rilke
• “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” — Brad Paisley
• “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot

Thanksgiving Caption Ideas

• Gobble ’til you wobble.
• Talk turkey to me.
• Sweet as pumpkin pie.
• Oh my gourd, I love Thanksgiving!
• A thankful heart is a happy heart.
• You’re the apple of my pie.
• May your hearts be as full as your plates this Thanksgiving.
• Just a couple of cutie pies.
• Call me a turkey because I’m stuffed.
• Eat, drink, and be thankful.
• Let the gourd times roll.
• Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about.
• Eat, drink, and cranberry.
• You’ll always be my gravy.
• I yam what I yam.
• We offered the turkey some dinner, but he was already stuffed.
• Just another corny Thanksgiving post.
• Eat pie, drink, and be thankful.
• “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Be present in all things and grateful for all things.” — Maya Angelou
• “I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual.” — Henry David Thoreau

Hanukkah Caption Ideas

• I love Hanukkah a latke.
• “The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.” — Rabbi Irving Greenberg
• Happy challah days!
• Keep calm and spin the dreidel.
• Eight nights of light.
• A candle’s light signifies a new beginning.
• You light up my life.
• Deck the halls with matzo balls.
• “Put on your yarmulke. Here comes Hanukkah. So much funukkah. To celebrate Hanukkah.” — Adam Sandler
• “The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle.” — Robert Altinger
• Let’s get lit!
• May your holidays be as bright as your lit menorah.
• When life gives you potatoes, make latkes.
• “A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light.” — Moshe Davis
• You spin me right round, baby, right round, like a dreidel baby, right round, round, round.

Kwanzaa Quote Caption Ideas

• “We will never know ourselves if we do not know our history.” — Dr. Maulana Karenga
• “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” — Maya Angelou
• “I don’t think there will ever be a time when the principles of Kwanzaa will not be important or timely. It’s a great time for reflection and now more than ever our country needs to be reminded of unity.” — Kellie Carter Jackson
• “I see Kwanzaa as an opportunity for African Americans to reaffirm ourselves if we choose to, a chance to rebuild and renew our focus. I see Kwanzaa as a holiday of the spirit.” — Jessica B. Harris
• “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” — Muhammad Ali

Winter Solstice Quotes

• “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck
• “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” — Sara Raasch
• “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland
• “What makes night within us may leave stars.” — Victor Hugo
• “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” — Pietro Aretino