Jimmy Buffett Quotes

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Man is bound to lie about himself

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. 'Cause I'm a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

I'm a really bad liar.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Liar' is the best work I've done.