Jimmy Buffett Quotes

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.

Fun is about as good a habit as there is.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Without geography you're nowhere.

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

I'm growing older, but not up.

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.

I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

Breathe in, breathe out, move on.

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

Cheeseburger in paradise!

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.