150+ Best Mexico Quotes & Mexican Instagram Captions You Need on Your Feed

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Looking to discover the best quotes about Mexico?

If you’re in Mexico now, or have visited and need some words of inspiration to express your emotions — you’re in the right place because I live in Mexico and I’ve compiled the most epic list of Mexico quotes the internet has ever seen.

As a Mexico expat, I’m inspired by my chosen country daily, and I hope to inspire you with these 150+ Mexico quotes and Mexican captions for Instagram 🇲🇽

Looking for Mexico Instagram captions? I got you! In fact, this list starts out with short Mexican captions for Instagram — perfect for any Mexico vacation photo.

Ready to discover the best Mexico quotes? ¡Ya vamos! (Which means: Let’s get to it already!)

Best Taco Captions and Guac Captions

1. A balanced diet is a taco in each hand

2. Surround yourself with tacos, not negativity

3. You cannot make everybody happy; you are not a taco 🌮

4. I wish I was full of tacos instead of emotions

5. Mexico is spec-taco-lar

6. Mexico, you guac my world 🥑

7. Live everyday like it’s Taco Tuesday

8. Ways to my heart: Buy me tacos, Make Me tacos, Be tacos

9. Maybe eating tacos isn’t cheating on my diet. Maybe me dieting is cheating on tacos 🤔

10. “I hate tacos,” said no Juan ever

11. You, me, tacos

12. Yesterday, I really wanted tacos. Today, I’m eating tacos. Follow your dreams.

13. Happiness is chips and guac 🥑

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Tequila Captions & Margarita Captions

14. Fiesta. Siesta. Tequila. Repeat.

15. Tequila: Because it’s Mexico somewhere

16. Take life with a pinch of salt, a shot of tequila and a wedge of lime. —John Walter Bratton

17. This señorita needs a margarita

18. “I hate tequila,” said no Juan ever

19. The sun, the sand, and this drink in my hand 🍹

20. Fiesta like there’s no mañana (meaning: Party like there’s no tomorrow)

21. When life gives you lemons… slice them up and find some tequila

22. Tequila may not be the answer, but it’s worth a shot

23. Beachside margaritas with my señoritas 🏖

24. Soup of the day: Tequila (or, Soup of the day: Mezcal, if you prefer mezcal)

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Travel to Mexico Captions

Visiting some of the best beaches in Mexico? Well then you’re going to need the perfect Mexico travel quotes, Spanish travel quotes, and more!

Below is a list of the best Mexico quotes Instagram has ever seen — whether you’re declaring your love for tacos, tequila, the beach or just Mexico in general.

25. Mexico is always a good idea

26. Work, save, Mexico, repeat

27. Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a ticket to Mexico and that’s kind of the same thing ✈️

28. Meet me in Mexico

29. Today’s good mood is brought to you by Mexico

30. You had me at hola

31. Anytime is a good time to go to Mexico

32. Mexico is calling, and I must go

33. Hecho en Mexico (meaning: Made in Mexico)

34. Gone to Mexico. Be back never 🇲🇽

35. Keep calm, I’m going to to Mexico

36. Once upon a time in Mexico

37. Buenos días Mexico ☀️ (meaning: Good morning Mexico)

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Mexican Love Comments: Travel quotes in Spanish

38. ¡Viva México! (meaning: Long live Mexico!)

39. México, mi amor (meaning: Mexico, my love)

40. Te amo Mexico (meaning: I love Mexico)

41. Pinche Mexico, te amo (meaning: Freakin’ Mexico, I love you)

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Mexico Vacation Quotes: Tulum Captions, Cancun Captions, Cabo Captions

🏖 Looking for Mexico Beach captions?

Regardless of what beach you’re visiting, these will make for great captions about travel — but there are some Cancun-specific captions below, for those who need Cancun Instagram captions, Tulum Instagram captions, and Cabo Instagram captions.

45. ¡Vamos a la playa! meaning Let’s go to the beach!

46. Life is better in flip flops 🩴🩴

47. Beach don’t kill my vibe

48. Life takes you down many paths, but the best ones lead to the beach

49. Sky above, sand below, peace within

50. You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination

51. Don’t worry, beach happy.

52. South of the border, down Mexico way. That’s where I fell in love where stars above, came out to play. And now as I wonder, my thoughts ever stray, south of the border, down Mexico way. —Jimmy Kennedy

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Song Lyrics & Quotes About Cancun Mexico

53. I need some Vitamin C–ancun

54. South Beach, Cancun, Won’t you come up out them Jimmy Choos —French Montana, from the song South Beach

55. I was lookin’ forward to June, I was ready for Cancun —Jacob Banks

56. On the cool beach of Cancun under the moon, Me and honey sipping Boone’s (Farm) —Natas, from the song Cancun

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10 Best Frida Kahlo Quotes for Captions

Oh, Frida! What would this list be without the one of the world’s most inspiring women, and most famous Mexican artist of all time?!

She has been the subject of Mexico books, inspo for Barbie dolls and copycat artists, part of Mexican folklore, immortalized in Frida Kahlo tattoos, and the main character in movies about Mexico.

This Mexican feminist icon spent much of her life bedridden after a terrible accident — painting and speaking inspirational words.

Today, visitors flock to the Casa Azul (Blue House) AKA the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City, to see the home she lived in until her death in 1954.

58. I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better. — Frida Kahlo

59. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? —Frida Kahlo

60. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. —Frida Kahlo

61. I love you more than my own skin. —Frida Kahlo

62. I think that little by little, I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive. —Frida Kahlo

63. I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim. —Frida Kahlo

64. I paint flowers so they will not die 🌸🌺🌼 —Frida Kahlo

65. The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. —Frida Kahlo

66. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. —Frida Kahlo

67. There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. —Frida Kahlo, about her marriage to fellow Mexican painter, Diego Rivera

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Mexican Funny Quotes

Since moving to Mexico in 2018, I’ve discovered that Mexicans love humor. It’s one of top reasons why I love Mexico so much.

Many say their country’s language is Mexpañol, because there’s so much slang unique only to Mexico.

Buried in the slang, are words and expressions ripe with double entendre (double meaning), intended to turn even mundane things into a joke.

68. In Mexico, an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn’t work very well. —Len Deighton, British author

68. I’m Mexican; What’s your superpower?

70. In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded. —Billy Connolly 

71. Are you a Mexi-can or Mexi-can’t? —from Once Upon A Time in Mexico, a film by by Robert Rodriguez

72. The country of Mexico has just gotten its first Taco Bell. You’re Welcome. Finally, Mexicans will have access to… Mexican food.

Bon appétit. I can’t imagine how confused they will be when they get a taco. —Jon Stewart, former host of the The Daily Show

73. Great art is horseshit, buy tacos. —Charles Bukowski, American author

74. Poor Mexico; so far from God and so close to the United States. —Porfirio Diaz, former Mexican President

Honorable Mention for Funniest Mexico Quote: I will build a great great wall on our southern border, and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump #ThatDidntAgeWell 🤣

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Famous Latino Quotes & Mexican Quotes

Here is a collection of often poignant quotes from poets, politicians, freedom fighters, artists, and a host of others who weave the unique tapestry that is Mexico!

Some are by Mexicans, while some are by those of Mexican descent who grew up in other places.

75. There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come. —Canelo Alvarez

76. Mexico extends beyond its borders. —Vicente Fox, former Mexican President

77. Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts. —Octavio Paz, Mexican Nobel Laureate

78. The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. —Carlos Santana, Mexican-American rock guitarist

79. I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you that you can’t do it, that you don’t have what it takes, but if it is in your heart and you feel it, there is nothing that will stop you.

It is like the sun — you can’t block it: it will shine regardless, if that is what you want. —Thalia, Mexican singer

80. Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties. —Enrique Pena Nieto, former Mexican President

81. There’s no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time. —Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican actor

82. I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. —Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress

83. We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they’re flip sides of the same coin: anything born is gonna die. —Mario Van Peebles, Mexican-American actor

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Quotes About Mexican People & Mexican Culture

Here are some quotes about Mexican people, and sentiment about the unique Mexican culture.

Most of them are Mexico quotes by Mexicans, but there are also some Mexico sayings from people who have visited Mexico and loved it.

87. Each Mexican has his own dream, and I’ve come to believe as long as we focus, you can accomplish anything you want. —Andy Ruiz Jr.

88. No one loves life more than we [Mexicans] do, in a way, because we are so conscious about death.

So the preciousness of life, standing side by side, the one place we’re all going to. —Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Oscar-Winning director of The Shape of Water 

89. What I’ve seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other.

I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are. —Alice Walker, American author of The Color Purple

90. One of the most notable traits of the Mexicans character is his willingness to contemplate horror: He is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. —Octavio Paz, Mexican Nobel Prize Winner and poet

91. I was born in Mexico, I grew up in Mexico, and along the way, I learned to love Mexico. I think anyone who has stepped foot on this land — not to mention all Mexican people — will agree that it’s not difficult to love Mexico. —Emiliano Salinas

92. In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you’ll be in big trouble. —Eva Longoria, Mexican-American actress

93. True love in Mexico isn’t between lovers; it’s between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal.

Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves, the love of your life is not your wife or your lover; it’s your mother. —Sandra Cisneros, Mexican-American writer

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Viva Mexico Quotes & Miguel Hidalgo quotes

Here are the most famous Mexican Independence Day quotes, said by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, considered the father of the Mexican Revolution.

96. ¡Viva la independencia! ¡Viva la América! ¡Muera el mal gobierno! (meaning: Long live independence! Long live America! Death to bad government!)

97. La lengua guarda al pescuezo (meaning: The tongue guards the neck) —Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

98. Siendo contra los clamores de la naturaleza vender a los hombres, quedan abolidas las leyes. (meaning: Being against the claims of nature to sell to men, the laws are abolished.) —Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

99. El indulto es para los criminales, no para los defensores de la patria. (meaning: The pardon is for criminals, not for defenders of the fatherland.) —Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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Best Mexico Quotes in Spanish: Mexican Proverbs About Life

One of the Latin Romance Languages, it’s no wonder that proverbs sound like Mexican love quotes in Spanish!

However, some are about the trials and tribulations of life. Below are the best Mexican sayings, along with the translated Mexican captions in English.

100. No eres lo que logras, eres lo que superas. (meaning: You are not what you achieve; you are what you surpass.)

101. El que mucho abarca, poco aprieta. (meaning: Jack of all trades, master of none.)

102. Mejor solo que mal acompañado. (meaning: Better alone than in bad company.) —Popular Mexican Saying

103. Cuando no esperas nada, todo llega. (meaning: When you expect nothing, everything arrives.)

104. Barriga llena, corazón contento. (meaning: Full stomach, happy heart.)

105. Arrieros somos y en el camino andamos. (meaning: We are all mule drivers in the fields; we are all human beings making our way through life; similar to: Don’t criticize or judge others, as we’re are all subject to shortcomings.)

108. La casa no se reclina sobre la tierra, sino sobre una mujer. (meaning: The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman; similar to: Women hold up half the sky.) —Traditional Mexican Proverb

109. Al mal tiempo, buena cara. (meaning: To bad times, a good face; similar to: Put your best foot forward, or Put your best face forward.)

110. Soy mucha mariposa para tu estomago 🦋 (meaning: There are many butterflies in my stomach.) —Proverb from Mexico

111. Una cosa es el amor y el negocio es otra cosa. (meaning: Love is one thing, and business is another; similar to: Don’t mix business with pleasure or love.)

112. Amor viejo, ni te olvido ni te dejo. (meaning: Old love, I’ll neither forget you nor leave you.)

113. Ahogado el niño, tapando el pozo. (meaning: After the child drowns, they close the well; similar to: It’s better to prevent a tragedy before it happens.)

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Best Mexican Quotes About Drinking Tequila

116. Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination. —Rainbow Rowell, American author

117. This tequila tastes like I’m not going to work tomorrow. 

118. Tequila is not even a drink; it’s a way for having the cops around without using a phone. —Dylan Moran, Irish comedian

119. Love is like tequila shots, not the quantity but strength matters. —Saru Singhal

120. It was too much tequila, or not quite enough. —Jimmy Buffett, American singer/songwriter

121. At least you don’t need a prescription for tequila. —Rachel Vincent, from Before I Wake

122. Deal with your wins and losses alike: With tequila, lemon and a pinch of salt. —Saleem Sharma

123. …And no one drank just one shot of tequila. —Kristin Hanna

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Best Anthony Bourdain Mexico Quotes

Señor Bourdain (RIP) is said to have fallen under the spell of Mexico.

Check out Parts Unknown (Season 3, Episode 4) and No Reservations (Season 5, Episode 1) to see Anthony Bourdain in Mexico City, and all over the country.

124. In years of making television in Mexico, it’s one of the places we, as a crew, are happiest when the day’s work is over…

We’ll gather around a street stall and order soft tacos with fresh, bright, delicious salsas, drink cold Mexican beer, sip smoky mezcals, and listen with moist eyes to sentimental songs from street musicians.

We will look around and remark, for the hundredth time, what an extraordinary place this is. —Anthony Bourdain, from Under the Volcano

125. I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it.

It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth. —Anthony Bourdain, Godfather of Cool

126. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed pope-mobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds?

Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taquerias mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head?

I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once. —Anthony Bourdain

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Best Quotes About Mexican Food

Mexico Fun Fact: In 2010, UNESCO declared Mexican food an “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind.

English translation: Mexican food is an international treasure worth preserving!

There was no way to do a Mexico quotes list without a separate section for the best Mexican food quotes — so here they are:

127. It becomes evident, when the glorious plunge is taken, that to cook and eat Mexican food is to celebrate sensuality in every great chamber of this textured, perfumed, delicious, beautiful, and memorable gastronomic antiquity. —Richard Condon

128. I’m convinced that anyone who doesn’t like Mexican food is a psychopath. —Jim Gaffigan, American comedian

129. When it’s done properly, taco should be a verb. —Jonathan Gold, LA Times food critic

130. Mexican food is way more than the bastardized burritos and nachos you pick up at window #2. — Anna Starostinetskaya, VegNews Magazine 

131. The pervasive fact about Mexican food is that it is not only for people who like to eat; it is, even more so if such a thing were possible, for people who like to cook. —Richard Condon

132. If you had to decide between being given a million dollars and eating tacos, which would you choose — Corn or flour?

133. Mexican food is an aphrodisiac which excites the passion for living. It courts, seduces, ravishes, then cherishes all five senses… —Richard Condon, American novelist

134. So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food and drink beer and make friends? That’s the question.

If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we’ll come out of it all right. —Sandra Day O’Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice on how to bring the nation together 🌮➕🍺=❤️

135. Long ago, she and I agreed on the merits of Mexican food. It is, we decided, earthy food, festive food, happy food, celebration food.

It is, in short, peasant food raised to the level of high and sophisticated art. —Craig Claiborne, Foreword to The Essential Cuisines of Mexico by Diana Kennedy

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Best Mexico City Quotes

On a personal note, I moved to Mexico after visiting Mexico City 😍

It will always hold a special places in my heart, even though I now live in Merida, Mexico, in the Yucatan Peninsula. However, these quotes about Mexico City help me reminisce with fondness.

136. The Aztecs believe they started up in what’s now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That’s a weird legend. —Jerry Pournelle

137. I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City. —Michael Nyman

138. I’ve always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. —Greg Kinnear, American actor

139. I was born in Mexico; I am from Mexico City. —Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer

140. Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, Its situation is marvelous. —Edward Burnett Tylor

141. Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I’ve always found my way through it in different ways. —Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mexican film director

142. Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics, and has been, and continues to be for Latin America.

In a way that I think really called to me as an artistic person, as someone that was interested in the politics of Latin America, you know.

God, every single famous person in Latin American history and art and politics seems to have found their way to Mexico City. —Junot Diaz, Creative Writing Professor at MIT

143. I went to Mexico City to visit, and I fell in love with the city.

I went to my house to pick up my stuff. It was the craziest, most impulsive move I’ve ever done. I just felt like I had to stay there. —Julieta Venegas, Mexican-American singer/songwriter

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BONUS: 10 Best Song Lyrics About Mexico

144. Oh, Mexico, It sounds so simple, I just got to go —Mexico, by James Taylor

145. Oh baby, I was bound for Mexico, Oh baby, I was bound to let you go — Mexico, by Cake

146. South of the border, down Mexico way, That’s where they fell in love, When stars above came out to play — South of the Border, by Patsy Cline

147. See it on the television every day, Hear it on the radio, It ain’t humid but it sure is hot, Down in Mexico —Riff Raff, by AC/DC

148. I’m goin’ way down south, Way down south, Way down south to Mexico way —Hey Joe, by Jimi Hendrix 

149. You only think about yourself, You’d better bend before I go, On the first train to Mexico —Mexico, by Incubus

150. Who’d a thunk?, Sittin’ drunk, On a wagon to Mexico —Icky Thump, by The White Stripes

151. They say there’s a place down in Mexico, Where a man can fly over mountains and hills, And he don’t need an airplane or some kind of engine, And he never will —Hypnotized, by Fleetwood Mac

152. I feel like bein’ jive, hangin’ out, maybe go to Mexico, ‘Cause dreamin’, baby, that’s the way I want to be, Just want to sit in a tree, sail out to sea, live like some fantasy —Pass it Around, by Grand Funk Railroad

153. Well I hear the whistle but I can’t go, I’m gonna take her down to Mexico, She said oh no, Guadalajara won’t do —My Old School, by Steely Dan

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Which of these Mexico quotes caught your eye?

We’ve reached the end of this epic list of Mexican quotes!

I hope you were able to find funny quotes about Mexico, quotes about Mexico culture, Mexican pride quotes, Mexico quotes in Spanish, Mexico vacation quotes, quotes about Mexico City, Cancun quotes and Tulum captions for Mexican beaches, Mexico puns, proverbs, and more!

There were also inspiring words by famous Mexicans, for those who prefer a longer, more inspirational IG caption about Mexico — so hopefully, I covered all bases!

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Additional Mexico Travel Resources

Check out my Mexico Destinations Guide to the best places to vacation in Mexico, and my Mexico Travel Tips Guide so you visit like a pro!