Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
Mario Puzo
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Give
Giving
Men
Assurances
Lawyers
Assurance
Honorable
Lawyer
More quotes by 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
It's just business nothing personal.
Mario Puzo
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
Mario Puzo
It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
Mario Puzo
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
Mario Puzo
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
Mario Puzo
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
Mario Puzo
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
Mario Puzo
He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful. ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important.
Mario Puzo
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
Any man can turn traitor.
Mario Puzo
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
Mario Puzo
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Mario Puzo
Power wears out those who do not have it.
Mario Puzo
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
Mario Puzo
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
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Mario Puzo
It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
Mario Puzo
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Mario Puzo
You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
Mario Puzo