Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Song ·170 of 348
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
They never said that.
What people say
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
What was actually said
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon — "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" (1980)
Why it stuck
Lennon used it in 1980. The line predates him — Allen Saunders printed it in Reader's Digest in 1957.
Included as misattribution rather than misquote.
Know another line by heart?
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