John Lennon

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it…

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don’t know anything.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money’s sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.