The Last Don Quotes

“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.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Never show anger at slight, tell nothing. Earn respect from everyone by deeds, not Words. Respect the members of your Blood Family. Gambling was Recreation, not a way to earn a Living. Love your Father, your Mother,
your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife. And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children. And once that happened to You, your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“The truth now. He was disappointed in human beings. He had seen too many betrayals, too many pitiful weaknesses, too much greed for money and fame. The falseness between lovers, husbands and wifes, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Everyone is responsible for everything he does”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“The world is what it is, and you are what you are.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“The don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio. To inspire true love, one also had to be feared. Love alone was contemptible, it was nothing if it did not also include trust and obedience. What good was love to him if it did not acknowledge his rule?”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“She cannot return your love. She does not live in our world. She does not even live in the world of animals. She lives on a different star, absolutely alone.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“The Don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“A man's primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children?”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Nekad neuztraucies par naudu. Domā par slavu.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Es rīkojos kā man ir vislabāk. Un vislabāk ir būt vienkāršam. Pavisam, pavisam vienkāršam. Un, kad vajag ko īpašu, tam jābūt pavisam, pavisam īpašam.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“If the Clericuzio Family was the Holy Church for the Mafia empires scattered over the United States, then the head of the Family, Don Domenico Clericuzio was the Pope, admired not only for his intelligence but for his strength.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Viņas īstā dzīve bija lomas, ko viņa tēloja, viņa jutās dzīvāka, kad iedvesa dzīvību savos tēlos, nēsāja tos sevī, kamēr pati dzīvoja savu parasto dzīvi.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot. America was his country. He would never leave America.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“on his own base. The Clericuzio estate in Quogue comprised twenty acres surrounded by a ten-foot-high redbrick wall armed by”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Is It possible to live in such a world where everyone does what he pleases? No one is punished by God or man and no one has to earn a living? Are there such women who follow every whim? Men such foolish weaklings, who succumb to every little desire, every little dream of happiness? Where are the honest husbands who work to earn their bread, who think of the best ways to protect their children from fate and the cruel world? Where are the people who understand a piece of cheese, a glass of wine, a warm house at the end of the day is reward enough? Who are these people who yearn for some mysterious happiness? What an uproar they make of life, what tragedies they brew up out of nothing.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Bija prieks atkal pievērsties rakstīšanai ar galvu, kas skaidra no kokaīna un patiesas mīlestības.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“But above all with a patriarchal love for his followers. Virtue was rewarded. Injuries avenged. A livelihood guaranteed.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Vīriešiem sekss vajadzīgs, lai sagatavotos doties kaujā ar pašapziņu. Sievietēm sekss vajadzīgs zaudējuma bēdu remdēšanai vai kā daļa no uzvaras gandarījuma.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“When he wrote about class, he claimed that people with a great deal of money had to be cruel and defensive, and that the poor ought to become criminals since they had to fight laws written by the rich to protect their money. He wrote that all welfare was simply a necessary bribe to keep the poor from starting a revolution. About religion, he wrote that it should be prescribed like medication.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“You don't know women," Pippi said. "if they like you, you can piss in the sink. If they don't like you, you can make them the Queen of England and they'll shit on you.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Other people veto their existence. I don’t let anyone do that.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

“Strangers decide their lives.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don