Mario Puzo: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Never let anyone know what you are thinking.”

“Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!”

“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”

“Power isn't everything… its the only thing.”

“We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.”

“Take the gun. Leave the cannoli.”

“Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster”

“He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart. The heart was just a bloody motor. The head was meant to drive”

“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.”

“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.”

“Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.”

“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.”

“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”

“it's just business nothing personal…”

“Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family…”

“Life is like a box of Hand grenades, You never know what will blow you to kingdom come”

“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.”

“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”

“Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.”