John Lennon Quotes

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

Conventionality is not morality.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different.

Where a bad custom has been in existence for any length of time, most people grow to regard it as part of the order of nature.

It's funny: I feel like so many people say, 'Monogamy, it's not natural; we created that for a variety of reasons,' but I think a lot of people love being married and enjoy being married and want to be married to who they're married to.

Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?