Mario Puzo Men Quotations

Any man can turn traitor.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved to be irresistible. He always made certain that the other fellow got his share of profit. Nobody lost. He did this, of course, by obvious means. Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

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.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

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.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

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

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

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.

Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone

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

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

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

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.