Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! Mario Puzo More Quotes by Mario Puzo More Quotes From Mario Puzo The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. Mario Puzo family loyalty lying What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is. Mario Puzo excuse past world When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone. Mario Puzo eyelashes dark lying A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults Mario Puzo underestimate faults enemy Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. Mario Puzo hate hatred enemy I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them. Mario Puzo fate block men Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. Mario Puzo destiny path men Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . Mario Puzo hollywood-life greatness men Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime. Mario Puzo crime successful fortune We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned. Mario Puzo loyalty honor commitment There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them. Mario Puzo done forget trying Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone Mario Puzo government inspiring friendship The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth. Mario Puzo money-power children world Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster Mario Puzo being-in-love falling-in-love love-is A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. Mario Puzo mafia real men In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. Mario Puzo shotguns dangerous Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. Mario Puzo anger advice people Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time. Mario Puzo soul men believe Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. Mario Puzo scandal competition genius Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying. Mario Puzo worry retirement inspirational
