“Wasted away again in Margaritaville,
Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt.
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame,
But I know it's nobody's fault.”
Margaritaville
Song lyrics, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (1977)
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Jimmy Buffett58
American singer–songwriter and businessman 1946Related quotes
“Some faults may claim forgiveness.”
Sunt delicta tamen quibus ignovisse velimus.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 347 (tr. Conington)
Davy Crockett (1786–1836) American politician
As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106
Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician
Faithfully Remain.
Song lyrics, White Lies for Dark Times (2009)
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"The Ghost of Tom Joad"
Song lyrics, The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
“Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Compare: "I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt/ Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault." Richard Brown, James Alley Blues.
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (recorded 1967)
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)
“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Sand and Foam (1926)