Jimmy Buffett: Quotes about life

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

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

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

“Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.”

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

“If life gives you limes make margaritas.”

“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.”

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

“Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's
And drinks his green label each day,
He's writing his memoirs and losing his hearing,
But he don't care what most people say.
Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion,
If he likes you he'll smile then he'll say,
Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic,
But I had a good life all the way.”

“I never used to miss the chance to climb up on his knee
And listen to the many tales of life upon the sea.
We'd go sailing back on Barkentines we'd talk of things he did
Tomorrow just a day away, for the Captain and the kid.”