135 Funny Fall Sayings

Last Updated on October 27, 2022 by Michele Tripple

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Fall is here, and it is time to celebrate the falling leaves, pumpkin everything, and bobbing for apples. Check out these funny fall sayings to celebrate fall as you spark some laughter with your friends and family.

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In our family, we love funny sayings! They always make for great conversation and lighten the mood when it gets a bit tense. We love these fun pirate sayings, our fun Valentine sayings, our spring sayings and, of course, these funny fall sayings. As the season changes why not share in some laughter with these funny fall sayings. Of course, we threw in a couple cute fall sayings as well because we couldn’t resist!

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Funny Fall Sayings

“Oh my gourd, we’ve got plenty!”

“My favorite color is October.”

“What do you use to mend a jack-o-lantern? A pumpkin patch.”

“You’re the pick of the patch.”

“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies”

“Sweater weather is better together.”

“Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit.”

“Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”

“Go big or gourd home.”

“Alexa, bake me pumpkin donuts and tell me I’m skinny.”

“Fall: That beautiful time of year between boob sweat and frost bite.”

“Hoodies, hot cocoa, boots, jeans, cuddling, crisp air, flushed cheeks. I live for autumn.”

“How ‘Bout Them Apples?”

“It’s football season! Spice, spice baby.”

“Stressed, blessed, pumpkin obsessed.”

It’s autumn in New York; It’s good to live again.”

– Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Be like a tree, and let the dead leaves drop.”

– Rumi

“It’s harvest time in this little town.”

– Luke Bryan

“You’re the pick of the patch.”

– Unknown

“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds — November!”

– Thomas Hood

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”

– Lauren DeStefano

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

– Albert Camus

“The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather’d up gold, And now he is dying… Old age, begin sighing!”

– Thomas Hood

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

– Chad Sugg

“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”

– Andrea Gibson

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

– Chad Sugg

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

– Samuel Butler

“October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came, The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band.”

– George Cooper

“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.”

– Siobhan Vivian

“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”

– Ruth Ahmed

“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.”

– Charlotte Bates

“Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is somber and slow.”

– Charles Dicken

“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.”

– Albert Camus

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”

– George Burns

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”

– Elizabeth Bowen

“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”

– Carol Bishop Hipps

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”

– John Burroughs

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

– Emily Bronte`

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”

– E. E. Cummings

“Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.”

– Hal Borland

“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

– William Wordsworth

“The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.”

– John Greenleaf Whittier

“The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head… The autumn wind is a raider, pillaging just for fun.”

– Steve Sabol

“The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying…Old age, begin sighing!”

– Thomas Hood

“The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

– John Muir

“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”

– Doug Larson

“Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit.”

– Unknown

“I’ll just end up walkin’ in the cold November rain.”

– Guns N’ Roses

“What do you use to mend a jack-o-lantern? A pumpkin patch.”

– Unknown

“If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.”

– George Eliot

“As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.”

– Ree Drummond

“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”

– Hal Borland

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”

– Shira Tamir

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

– Henry David Thoreau

“Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!”

– Rusty Fischer

“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”

– Dorothy Parker

“Oh my gourd, we’ve got plenty!”

– Unknown

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”

– Henry Beston

“How ‘Bout Them Apples?”

– Unknown

“It’s like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for ‘Harry Potter’.”

– Robbie Coltrane

“Autumn’s the mellow time.”

– William Allingham

“My favorite color is October.”

— Unknown

“Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

– Robert Browning

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

– J.K. Rowling

“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies”

– Unknown

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”

– Sarah Addison Allen

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”

– John Donne

“I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.”

– Wendy Delsol

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

“And the sunsets of autumn—are they not gorgeous beyond description? More so than the brightest dreams of poetry?”

– Charles Lanman

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”

– Jane Hirshfield

“October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”

– Elizabeth Lawrence

“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”

– Nova Bair

“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!”

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

– George Eliot.

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”

– William Cullen Bryant.

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”

– Stanley Horowitz.

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.”

– Yoko Ono

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

– Jim Bishop

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.”

– George Eliot

“I saw old autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.”

– Thomas Hood

“Autumn’s the mellow time.”

– William Allingham

“Dancing of the autumn leaves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”

– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Designers want me to dress like spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like spring. I feel like a warm red autumn.”

– Marilyn Monroe

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

– L.M. Montgomery

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

– Ann Drake

“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.”

– Terri Guillemets

“I come by light of an autumn moon.”

– Broken Bells

“But now it’s time for me to go, the autumn moon lights my way.”

– Led Zeppelin

“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”

– Faith Baldwin

“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”

– Delia Owens, ‘Where The Crawdads Sing.’

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”

– Jane Hirshfield, ‘The Heat Of Autumn.’

“And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.”

– Raquel Franco

“I see the turning of a leaf dancing in an autumn sun, and brilliant shades of crimson glowing when the day is done.”

– Hazelmarie Mattie Elliott

“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”

– Victoria Erickson

“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…”

– Virginia Woolf

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.”

– Dodinsky

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seed in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”

– B. C. Forbes

“Go big or gourd home.”

– Unknown

“In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”

– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!”

– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There are two times of year: football season and waiting for football season.”

– Darius Rucker

“I come alive in the fall time.”

– The Weeknd

“Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”

– Unknown

“But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.”

– Frank Sinatra, ‘Autumn Leaves.’

“In the quivering forest, where the shivering dog rests, our good grandfather built a wooden nest. And the river got frozen, and the hole got snowed in, and the yellow moon glowed bright till the morning light.”

– Fleet Foxes

“I’m still in love with you, I want to see you dance again. Because I’m still in love with you on this harvest moon.”

– Neil Young

“What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails, that’s what little boys are made of. What are little girls made of?  Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of.”

–  ‘What are Little Boys Made Of?’

“But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.”

– Frank Sinatra

“It’s football season! Spice, spice baby.”

– Unknown

“Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, ‘Never take candy from strangers.’ And then they dressed me up and said, ‘Go beg for it.’ I didn’t know what to do! I’d knock on people’s doors and go, ‘Trick or treat…No, thank you.’”

– Rita Rudner

“The witches fly, Across the sky,The owls go, ‘Who? Who? Who?’ The black cats yowl, And green ghosts howl, ‘Scary Halloween to you!’”

– Nina Willis Walter

“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”

– Brackett

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

– Steve Almond

“Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the ‘spirits’ of things.”

– Dee Snider

“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’”

– Dexter Kozen

“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.”

– Eleanor Estes

“Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat… ”

– Nicholas Gordon

“Thanksgiving is an emotional time. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they see only once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.”

– Johnny Carson

“Thanksgiving—when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook.”

– Melanie White

“For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.

– Andy Borowitz

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”

– Jay Leno

“It’s Thanksgiving and we should not want to be together, together!”

– Rachel Green

“A lot of Thankgivings have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.”

– Kin Hubbard

“Of all of the food filled holidays, Thanksgiving reigns king in the United States.”

– Gia Scott

“Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.”

– Erma Bombeck

“October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Turkey for the girls and Turkey for the boys. My favorite kind of pants are corduroys. Gobble gobble goo and Gobble gobble gickel. I wish turkey only cost a nickel. Oh I love turkey on Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!”

– Adam Sandler, The Thanksgiving Song

“Sweater weather is better together.”

– Unknown

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