Quote

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Mario Puzo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
Author
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
Oil
Friendship
Water
Money

More quotes by Mario Puzo

Image
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Mario Puzo
Image
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo
Image
It's just business nothing personal.
Mario Puzo
Image
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo
Image
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
Mario Puzo
Image
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
Image
He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
Mario Puzo
Image
Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
Mario Puzo
Image
We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
Mario Puzo
Image
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
Mario Puzo
Image
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
Mario Puzo
Image
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Mario Puzo
Image
Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
Mario Puzo
Image
Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.
Mario Puzo
Image
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
Image
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
Mario Puzo
Image
Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Mario Puzo
Image
Any man can turn traitor.
Mario Puzo
Image
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Mario Puzo
Image
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
Mario Puzo