Avid social media users shouldn’t underestimate the power a caption can play in the success of your photograph, so we’ve compiled this list of quotes for Instagram so you can pick the best caption every time.
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). I am never without it.” — By E.E. Cummings
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Browning
You don’t need to be on safari to capture the local wildlife (though a trip through Africa should be on any animal-lover’s bucket list).
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” –James Herriot
“Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though.” – Benjamin Hoff
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.” – W.H. Auden
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear.
Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark
“What is art anyway?” – Georgia O’Keeffe
We’re all in favor of a life-changing solo trip. But traveling with a best friend or a family member can be just as impactful.
From best friends to brothers (not to mention clever brunch puns and beach quotes) these are the “B” Instagram captions to keep in mind.
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
“On the beach, you can live in bliss.” – Dennis Wilson
“Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.” – Michelle Held
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” – Rachel Carson
“Brothers don’t let each other wander in the dark alone.” – Jolene Perry
“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.” – Hindu proverb
“But first, brunch.” – Anonymous
“Brunch without champagne is just a sad breakfast.” – Anonymous
“Hakuna Mimosa. It means, ‘it’s brunchtime.’” – Anonymous
“Like our wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.” – Graham Greene
“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.” – Toni Morrison
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is that our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea…” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
“To reach a port we must set sail. Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
