Top 150 Jimmy Buffett Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.”

— Jimmy Buffett

52. “Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say – Someday, I will.”

— Jimmy Buffett

53. “If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.”

— Jimmy Buffett

54. “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

55. “I’m getting old, don’t wear underwear, and I don’t go to church.”

— Jimmy Buffett

56. “My occupational hazard is my occupation’s just not around...”

— Jimmy Buffett

57. “We’re just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.”

— Jimmy Buffett

58. “It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.”

— Jimmy Buffett

59. “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

60. “Life is a journey that’s measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

62. “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

63. “While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don’t bend.”

— Jimmy Buffett

64. “I’d like to be a jellyfish, ’cause jellyfish don’t pay rent.”

— Jimmy Buffett

65. “Truth is stranger than fishin.”

— Jimmy Buffett

66. “Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.”

— Jimmy Buffett

67. “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

68. “It’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.”

— Jimmy Buffett

69. “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

70. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

71. “I just thank God I don’t live in a trailer.”

— Jimmy Buffett

72. “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

73. “I have been drunk now for over two weeks.”

— Jimmy Buffett

74. “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?”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

76. “My mother insisted that her children read.”

— Jimmy Buffett

77. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

78. “Cheeseburger in paradise!”

— Jimmy Buffett

79. “I recommend that you try a little mental floss.”

— Jimmy Buffett

80. “I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.”

— Jimmy Buffett

81. “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

82. “Where it all ends I can’t fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

84. “I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases...”

— Jimmy Buffett

85. “The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.”

— Jimmy Buffett

86. “Any manual labor I’ve done was purely by mistake.”

— Jimmy Buffett

87. “I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.”

— Jimmy Buffett

88. “I’m going back to my parrot head friends.”

— Jimmy Buffett

89. “Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can’t be me in the gorilla disguise.”

— Jimmy Buffett

90. “Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

92. “What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.”

— Jimmy Buffett

93. “Lights are glowing in the palm trees...”

— Jimmy Buffett

94. “Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.”

— Jimmy Buffett

95. “Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor’s wife’s popcorn.”

— Jimmy Buffett

96. “Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.”

— Jimmy Buffett

97. “Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don’t we get drunk and screw?”

— Jimmy Buffett

98. “If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.”

— Jimmy Buffett

99. “I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.”

— Jimmy Buffett

100. “There’s a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.”

— Jimmy Buffett