Top 31 Mario Puzo Quotes on Family (LOYALTY)

Top 10 Most Famous Mario Puzo Quotes (BEST)

“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.”
Mario Puzo

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family. — **Friendship** is everything. Friendship is more than **talent**. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of **family**.

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

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is. — What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for **happiness**. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

“When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can’t be allowed to live. Especially if she’s sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.”
Mario Puzo

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

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

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

Friendship and money: oil and water. — **Friendship** and **money**: oil and water.

5 Mario Puzo Quotes About Life

“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.”
Mario Puzo

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.

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

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

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

7 WiseMario Puzo Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)

“There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don’t talk about them. You don’t try to justify them. They can’t be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.”
Mario Puzo

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

“There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don’t try to justify them. They can’t be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.”
Mario Puzo

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Even the strongest man needs friends. — Even the strongest man needs **friends**.

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

9 Mario Puzo Quotes that Will Make You Think

“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.”
Mario Puzo