Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
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Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.
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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.
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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.
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The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.
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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.
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
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Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?
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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.
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The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
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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.
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Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
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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.
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Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.
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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.
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We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.
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I'm growing older, but not up.
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The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.
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Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
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I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.
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My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. It's that kind of morning.
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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
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Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!
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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.