Top 150 Jimmy Buffett Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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2. “Breathe in, breathe out, move on...”

— Jimmy Buffett

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3. “Without geography you’re nowhere.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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4. “I’m growing older, but not up.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

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6. “Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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7. “Only time will tell if it was time well-spent.”

— Jimmy Buffett

8. “Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.”

— Jimmy Buffett

9. “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

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

— Jimmy Buffett

11. “Shells sink, dreams float. Life’s good on our boat.”

— Jimmy Buffett

12. “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

13. “Some of it’s magic and some of it’s tragic but I had a good life all the way.”

— Jimmy Buffett

14. “I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.”

— Jimmy Buffett

15. “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

16. “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

17. “Indecision may or may not be my problem.”

— Jimmy Buffett

18. “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

19. “Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.”

— Jimmy Buffett

20. “People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.”

— Jimmy Buffett

21. “I’ve got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!”

— Jimmy Buffett

22. “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

23. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

25. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

27. “Is it time for your medication or mine?”

— Jimmy Buffett

28. “With you, I would walk anywhere.”

— Jimmy Buffett

29. “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

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30. “There’s no ‘dumb-ass’ vaccine.”

— Jimmy Buffett

31. “If I couldn’t laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn’t laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren’t all crazy, we would go insane.”

— Jimmy Buffett

32. “Don’t try to describe the ocean if you’ve never seen it.”

— Jimmy Buffett

33. “Why don’t we get drunk and screw?”

— Jimmy Buffett

34. “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all going to go insane.”

— Jimmy Buffett

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Some people think there’s a woman to blame, but I know – it’s my own damn fault.”

— Jimmy Buffett

38. “The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.”

— Jimmy Buffett

39. “Pack your bags, we’re going on a guilt trip!”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

41. “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

42. “This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I’ve got cabin fever.”

— Jimmy Buffett

43. “Fun is about as good a habit as there is.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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44. “Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.”

— Jimmy Buffett

45. “Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I’ll be fine...”

— Jimmy Buffett

46. “Tonight I just need my guitar.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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47. “If I don’t die by Thursday, I’ll be roaring Friday night.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

49. “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

50. “I slowly surrender to the child in me who can’t say goodbye.”

— Jimmy Buffett