50 Best Maine Quotes and Instagram Captions for Your Trip to the Pine Tree State 2026
Known for its seafood and lighthouses, the coastal state of Maine is one of the best places in New England!
So if you’re looking to learn more then you’re in the right place. Below I’ve curated a bumper list of Maine quotes that are guaranteed to have you booking your next trip to the Pine Tree state!
Not only can you use these quotes about Maine to inspire your vacation, but they are also perfect for those looking for Maine Captions for Instagram!
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Maine Instagram Captions
“Did you ever see a place that looks like it was built just to enjoy? Well, this whole state of Maine looks that way to me.” – Will Rogers
My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine.
– Marilynne Robinson
Maine is a beautiful place that I paradoxically want to hoard to myself and share with everyone I meet.
– John Hodgman
In Maine we have a saying that there’s no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
– Edmund Muskie
Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.
– Sue Hubbell
The New York papers carried pages of coverage for an entire week, stating that the Maine had been purposely blown up and that the Spanish had done it.
– Jan R. Van Meter
Funny Maine Sayings
“When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour
Shello, there.
The world is your lobster!
Shell yeah, Maine!
Found myself a good catch in Maine
Shell we dance?
This lobster’s my butter half.
Maine Captions for Instagram
Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn’t look it, but somehow when you get out there it’s really steep and hard.
– Bill Bryson
“The spirit of Maine has infected me.” – John Hodgman
There’s a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It’s absolutely a world onto itself.
– Jamie Wyeth
“I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn’t find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.” – Parker Stevenson
“Friendship is a pretty village perched above a working lobster harbor.” – Walter Cronkite
“In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.” –Tom Allen
Maine Puns about Lobsters
I love my Maine squeeze
Lobster is butter when we’re together
Seas the day! Order the lobster.
Let’s shell-ebrate the good times in Maine
Party like a lobstar
You’re on a roll.
Feeling a little shellfish tonight.
Instagram Captions for Maine
Welcome to Maine, the way life should be.
“Located on the East Coast of the United States, Maine is famous for its wild, untamed scenery. Rocky, windswept beaches line the coast.”
– Robin S. Doak
“Spring and fall are also comfortable. Maine’s fall foliage attracts visitors from around the world.”
–Robin S. Doak
“What do they long for, as I long for one salt smell of the sea once more?” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
“She said it’s the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.” – Megan Miranda
“Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.
” – Paul Theroux
Maine Vacation Quotes
As Maine goes, so goes the nation.
–Susan Ratcliffe
Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
–Chellie Pingree
In Maine, there’s a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.
– Tim Sample
I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
– Elizabeth Strout
“I felt like I’d been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.” –Terry Goodkind
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of ice crystals. –
Paul Theroux
Quotes about Maine
The branch had unquestionably been whacked from a tree in the woods behind our son’s house in Maine and had made the long trip south. It wore the look and carried the smell of authenticity.
– E.B. White
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than good anywhere else.
– E.B. White
You can certainly learn to spell ‘moccasin’ while driving into Maine, and there is often little else to do, except steer and avoid leaving.
– E.B. White
“I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.” –Rachel Nichols
When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for the sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they were hard to find. They’re covered in sand. They’re difficult to see.
– Sarah Parcak
Maine Quotes Sayings
I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.
– Noah Gray-Cabey
I never fastened my door, night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. and yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.
– Henry David Thoreau
I think of those first five years in Maine as the time when this happened to me… I was suddenly seeing, feeling, and listening as a child sees, feels, and listens.
– E.B. White
“Should fate unkind send us to roam, the scent of fragrant pines, the tang of salty sea will call us home.” – State of Maine song
The beauty of Maine is such that you can’t really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I’ve moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the fire and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.
– Alexander Chee
That’s the Best Maine Phrases
That’s the end of my bumper list, so I hope you’ve managed to find the perfect Maine quote.
I’d love to know which one is your favorite, and if I’ve missed any awesome quotes about Maine then please let me know in the comments below.
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