Quote

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

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
Money
Power
Earth
Children
World
Prosperity
Wealth

More quotes by Mario Puzo

Image
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
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 was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo
Image
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
Mario Puzo
Image
But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
Mario Puzo
Image
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
Mario Puzo
Image
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
Mario Puzo
Image
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
Image
Any man can turn traitor.
Mario Puzo
Image
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
Image
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
Mario Puzo
Image
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo
Image
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
Image
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
Mario Puzo
Image
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
Image
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
Mario Puzo
Image
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
Mario Puzo
Image
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
Image
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
Mario Puzo
Image
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Mario Puzo