1. “Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.” – Jimmy Buffett
2. “Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.” – Jimmy Buffett
3. “Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.” – Jimmy Buffett
4. “Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.” – Jimmy Buffett
5. “Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.” – Jimmy Buffett
6. “They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.” – Jimmy Buffett
7. “If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” – Jimmy Buffett
8. “Whether it’s a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it’s writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.” – Jimmy Buffett
9. “Never did I think that I became family entertainment.” – Jimmy Buffett
10. “Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.” – Jimmy Buffett
11. “If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.” – Jimmy Buffett
12. “We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!” – Jimmy Buffett
13. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
14. “Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it’s a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven’t a clue.” – Jimmy Buffett
15. “And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.” – Jimmy Buffett
16. “Shells sink, dreams float. Life’s good on our boat. ” – Jimmy Buffett
17. “If life gives you limes make margaritas.” – Jimmy Buffett
18. “Pack your bags, we’re going on a guilt trip!” – Jimmy Buffett
19. “It’s my job to be better than the rest, and that’s enough reason to go for me. It’s my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.” – Jimmy Buffett
20. “The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don’t tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.” – Jimmy Buffett
21. “We’re just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.” – Jimmy Buffett
22. “find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor” – Jimmy Buffett
23. “Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets…” – Jimmy Buffett
24. “I ain’t no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.” – Jimmy Buffett
25. “This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I’ve got cabin fever.” – Jimmy Buffett
26. “I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.” – Jimmy Buffett
27. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
28. “The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.” – Jimmy Buffett
29. “We are the people our parents warned us about.” – Jimmy Buffett
30. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
31. “Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?” – Jimmy Buffett
32. “I’m growing older, but not up.” – Jimmy Buffett
33. “My mother insisted that her children read.” – Jimmy Buffett
34. “I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.” – Jimmy Buffett
35. “He lives in the moment, not dwelling on what happened yesterday or what might happen tomorrow.” – Jimmy Buffett
36. “Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.” – Jimmy Buffett
37. “Tonight I just need my guitar.” – Jimmy Buffett
38. “I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.” – Jimmy Buffett
39. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
40. “Where it all ends I can’t fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.” – Jimmy Buffett
41. “I’m a big follower and reactor to weather.” – Jimmy Buffett
42. “That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.” – Jimmy Buffett
43. “Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late. Cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothing to plunder, I’m an over forty victim of fate.” – Jimmy Buffett
44. “You get religion as your hair turns grey.” – Jimmy Buffett
45. “I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.” – Jimmy Buffett
46. “I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.” – Jimmy Buffett
47. “I slowly surrender to the child in me who can’t say goodbye.” – Jimmy Buffett
48. “It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.” – Jimmy Buffett
49. “Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.” – Jimmy Buffett
50. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
51. “If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.” – Jimmy Buffett
52. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
53. “The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people “find it.” – Jimmy Buffett
54. “I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases…” – Jimmy Buffett
55. “There’s no ‘dumb-ass’ vaccine.” – Jimmy Buffett
56. “I just thank God I don’t live in a trailer.” – Jimmy Buffett
57. “There’s damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.” – Jimmy Buffett
58. “Is it time for your medication or mine?” – Jimmy Buffett
59. “He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.” – Jimmy Buffett
60. “With you, I would walk anywhere.” – Jimmy Buffett
61. “Indecision may or may not be my problem.” – Jimmy Buffett
62. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
63. “I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I’ve promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I’ll work at my own pace.” – Jimmy Buffett
64. “You better lava me now or lava me not.” – Jimmy Buffett
65. “Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.” – Jimmy Buffett
66. “These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.” – Jimmy Buffett
67. “It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.” – Jimmy Buffett
68. “It’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.” – Jimmy Buffett
69. “Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. ” – Jimmy Buffett
70. “Without geography you’re nowhere.” – Jimmy Buffett
71. “While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don’t bend.” – Jimmy Buffett
72. “The wino and I know the pain of back bustin’.” – Jimmy Buffett
73. “Some of it’s magic and some of it’s tragic but I had a good life all the way.” – Jimmy Buffett
74. “I know I should be leaving this climate, I’ve got a verse, but can’t rhyme it.” – Jimmy Buffett
75. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
76. “Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.” – Jimmy Buffett
77. “My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don’t love Jesus. It’s that kind of morning.” – Jimmy Buffett
78. “It’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.” – Jimmy Buffett
79. “When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.” – Jimmy Buffett
80. “You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.” – Jimmy Buffett
81. “The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.” – Jimmy Buffett
82. “I’d like to be a jellyfish, ’cause jellyfish don’t pay rent.” – Jimmy Buffett
83. “I’m going back to my parrot head friends.” – Jimmy Buffett
84. “People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.” – Jimmy Buffett
85. “It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.” – Jimmy Buffett
86. “Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.” – Jimmy Buffett
87. “I’ve got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!” – Jimmy Buffett
88. “I’m growing older, but not up.” – Jimmy Buffett
89. “I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead. ” – Jimmy Buffett
90. “Under the heavens and under the sea there’s a friend I don’t know, who holds the right key.” – Jimmy Buffett
91. “Why don’t we get drunk and screw?” – Jimmy Buffett
92. “Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.” – Jimmy Buffett
93. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
94. “Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.” – Jimmy Buffett
95. “Lights are glowing in the palm trees…” – Jimmy Buffett
96. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
97. “One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.” – Jimmy Buffett
98. “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.” – Jimmy Buffett
99. “Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I’ll be fine…” – Jimmy Buffett
100. “Only time will tell if it was time well-spent.” – Jimmy Buffett
101. “Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.” – Jimmy Buffett
102. “Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say – Someday, I will.” – Jimmy Buffett
103. “Breathe in, breathe out, move on…” – Jimmy Buffett