80 Best Picnic Quotes To Make You Fall In Love With Life

The only thing better than a delicious meal is a delicious meal with your BFFs somewhere in nature, under a blue sky.

Today’s article brings you a collection of 80 perfect picnic quotes to capture these dreamy picnic moments and make them last forever.

As soon as the first spring rays of sunshine touch the ground, we head out into nature, bringing snacks and beverages.

There’s something magical in enjoying delicious food surrounded by a small circle of best friends, a blue sky above you, trees around you, and birds singing cheerfully.

Such beautiful scenery is definitely Instagram-worthy. Thus picnic always ends with a phone gallery full of cute pics, and the best of them will en up on Instagram.

Who is to blame? We’re all suckers for a nice Instagram post.

You can use these picnic quotes as captivating picnic captions to make a fabulous Instagram post. Or you can simply use them for inspiration.

Now, keep calm and read on!

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Top 10 Picnic Quotes

I’m about to show you a collection of the top 10 picnic quotes I find the most enchanting. Have a look!

1. “Among the delights of summer were picnics to the woods.” — Georg Brandes

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2. “Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.” — Jane Wagner

3. “Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.” — W. H. Auden

4. “There are few things so pleasant as a picnic lunch eaten in perfect comfort.” — W. Somerset Maugham

5. “Things taste better outdoors. And if it’s a forbidden thing, so much the better.” — Franny Billingsley

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6. “I’m not opposed to a fancy meal, but I’ll take a picnic any day… food and nature? Sign me up.” — Ryan Paevey

7. “A picnic is more than eating a meal; it is a pleasurable state of mind.” — DeeDee Stovel

8. “Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

9. “I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.” — Dia Mirza

10. “My definition of a perfect date: good food, the smell of grass and blue sky above.” — Kirsten Hill

Cute Picnic Quotes

More cute picnic quotes are coming your way. Enjoy!

1. “If the rain spoils our picnic but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?” — Tom Barrett

2. “A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations, and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.” — P. D. James

3. “Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home.” — John Steinbeck

4. “I’m into all that sappy stuff – a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I’m kind of an old romantic.” — Will Estes

5. “My perfect day would be a picnic with my two best friends.” — Kisten Hill

6. “There’s something so intimate about a picnic with your guy. And as the temperature begins to rise, eating outside becomes refreshing and romantic.” — Katie Lee

7. “‘Never plan a picnic,’ Father said. ‘Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.’” — Elizabeth Enright

8. “I like to walk around Central Park and take in the vibe, have a picnic if the weather is good, and people-watch.” — Samantha Barks

9. “I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We’d take a picnic, and I’d spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn’t get me out of there.” — Olga Kurylenko

10. “Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.” — Gary Barlow

11. “My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.” — Janet Fitch

12. “Life is neither a picnic nor a pain” — Lailah Gifty Akita

13. “A beach date would be awesome, with like a little picnic basket, some fruit, and bread – just something really, really relaxed and laid-back. I like just relaxing all day, maybe playing in the water a little bit. It’s just totally a day to chill.” — Beth Phoenix

14. “Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘let’s party.’” — Robin Williams

15. “Love is like a picnic without ants, pleasant for a while, but sooner or later something’s definitely getting squashed.” — Frances Winkler

16. “I sit around listening to classical music. I don’t play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.” — George A. Romero

17. “I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!” — Phyllis Bottome

18. “I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.” ― Richard Brautigan

19. “My dream date would be a hike through the woods followed by an outdoor picnic followed by a glass of wine at sunset. Heaven!” — Nina Agdal

20. “Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smart Picnic Quotes

Below you’ll find a selection of smart picnic quotes. Check them out!

1. “Everybody loves a picnic in the sunshine. It was always so magical when we were kids.” — Gregg Wallace

2. “The examined life is no picnic.” — Robert Fulghum

3. “People don’t want to go to the dump and have a picnic. They want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.” — Jack Nicklaus

4. “The only thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn’t matter if it’s a recession or not. You can include that in your quality of life.” — Jim Fowler

5. “I’m really big on day dates. If you go for a stroll, have a picnic or lunch with a glass of wine – it doesn’t get better than that.” — Meghan Markle

6. “When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.” — Mary Pope Osborne

7. “People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.” — Emily Post

8. “We like to take picnics and sandwiches, driving through the green lanes. My wife loves the house, the dogs, and the animals we have around us, the deer and the fox that comes and pokes his head through the hedge.” — Keith Flint

9. “Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: I’ve learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.” — Arthur Frommer

10. “One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.” — William Feather

11. “My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns – perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.” — Martin Clunes

12. “If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he’d have had to bring a picnic lunch.” — Bill Anderson

13. “When I was 6, my mother put me on a picnic table in front of the whole family and told me to do my James Brown impression. I realized it was a great way of getting attention.” — Eddie Griffin

14. “If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.” — Jonathan Cainer

15. “I’m not a fan of BBQs. A sandwich and good company out in the woods is my definition of fun.” — Kirsten Hill

16. “When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.” — Charles A. Murray

17. “Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” — Tom Stoppard

18. “When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.” — Dolly Parton

19. “A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.” — Karen Russell

20. “Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.” — Alexander Smith

Funny Picnic Quotes

If you’ve been looking for picnic puns…well, you won’t find them here, unfortunately.

However, you’ll find some of the funniest picnic quotes anywhere on the web. Take a look!

1. “If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?” — Marie Dressler

2. “What a Gouda day to spend with your best buddies.” — unknown

3. “Cole’s law states that you must bring it to picnics.” — unknown

4. “Wanna go on a picnic? Alpaca lunch.” —

5. “I’ve liked lots of people ’til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.” — Bess Truman

6. “Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don’t mind going through a little bush to get there!” — Minnie Pearl

7. “We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.” — Bill Vaughan

8. “As a diabetic, I’m a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.” — Elaine Stritch

9. “The grass is always greener when you’re on a picnic with your besties.” — unknown

10. “Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.” — Alice Walker

Sweet Picnic Quotes

One more thing I want to share with you today is this collection of sweet picnic quotes.

1. “You bring your own weather to the picnic.” — Harlan Coben

2. “Nothing is better than a picnic.” — Zooey Deschanel

3. “The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store – if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.” — Kate Winslet

4. “The only thing missing in my picnic basket is you.” — unknown

5. “There’s no depression that a great food enjoyed out in the fresh air cannot cure.” — Kirsten Hill

6. “Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.” — Kim Harrison

7. “My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.” — Jane Fitch

8. “Picnics enable you to be outside, eat fun finger-food and enjoy that greatest of pastimes: People-watching.” — Gregg Wallace

9. “When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding – that, for me, was the American Dream.” — Renzo Rosso

10. “Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.” — Neil Sedaka

11. “I can’t get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths, and parks in the middle of the city.” — Jessica Lowndes

12. “He’s a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.” — Lance Bass

13. “I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.” — Roy Lichtenstein

14. “Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.” — Aimee Bender

15. “Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.” — Sara Genn

16. “Surry down to a stoned soul picnic. Surry down to a stoned soul picnic. There’ll be lots of time and wine. Red-yellow honey. Sassafras and moonshine.” — Laura Nyro

17. “If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.” — Paul Orfalea

18. “There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.” — Galt Niederhoffer

19. “Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they’d like to have a picnic. But actually creating it – how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who’s creative understands that that’s the magic, that’s the alchemy.” — Billy Corgan

20. “Dinner and a movie, forget that. I’d rather have a picnic and a waterfall.” — Amanda Grace

To Sum Up

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you liked my collection of picnic quotes. I’d like to know which one is your favorite, so feel free to share it in the comments section below.

Until next time!