What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. Mario Puzo More Quotes by Mario Puzo More Quotes From Mario Puzo Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight. Mario Puzo girl sight thinking Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult. Mario Puzo accidents insult people Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread Mario Puzo mother father children You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble. Mario Puzo secret love people Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion. Mario Puzo suicidal gambling war there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues. Mario Puzo underestimate faults enemy Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers. Mario Puzo men two father Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold. Mario Puzo cold taste revenge I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line. Mario Puzo lines fellow-man men A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. Mario Puzo gun humorous funny Friendship and money: oil and water. Mario Puzo real-friends money friendship Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Mario Puzo hollywood-films movie inspirational I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. Mario Puzo trying men children Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. Mario Puzo finance gun knowing If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone. Mario Puzo taught-us this-life life-is Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved to be irresistible. He always made certain that the other fellow got his share of profit. Nobody lost. He did this, of course, by obvious means. 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 competition men mean Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin. Mario Puzo wicked men world I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. Mario Puzo gambling reading beer Even the strongest man needs friends. Mario Puzo friend-in-need men needs The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters Mario Puzo daughter husband mother
