If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
John Lennon
- Life
- 1940-1980
- Occupations
- writer, actor, singer-songwriter
- Notable works
- Imagine
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'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' is in 'Beautiful Boy' (1980), so Lennon genuinely sang it -- but the aphorism was already old, printed in Reader's Digest in 1957 and credited to cartoonist Allen Saunders. Lennon is how the line travels; Saunders is where it starts.
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
John Lennon
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John Lennon