Top 196 Quotes & Sayings by Jimmy Buffett - Page 2

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

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

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

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...

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

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

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

Is it time for your medication or mine?

We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.

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

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

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

I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

I'm growing older, but not up.

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

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

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

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

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

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.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.

Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

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

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

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

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

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

Without geography you're nowhere.

The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

Yeah. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun... We're showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.

There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

Lights are glowing in the palm trees.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. It's that kind of morning.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.

I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.

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

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.