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

— Mario Puzo

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American Novelist 1920–1999

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

“Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?”

Natalie Angier (1958) American writer

Source: Woman: An Intimate Geography

“There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.”

Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician

Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

“You are more dangerous than daybreak.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Variant: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.

“There is danger in deep water, and danger is more real than beauty in a boy’s mind.”

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator

Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 50, section 2 (p. 661)

“The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.”

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) American author and socialist

Source: Dr. Heidenhoff's Process http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7052/7052-h/7052-h.htm (1880), Ch. 4.

“When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing:
--When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men;
--When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 79.

“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

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

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