Mario Puzo - Time Quotes

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

Mario Puzo

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

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

Mario Puzo

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.

Mario Puzo

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

Mario Puzo

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