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. — Mario Puzo
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Mario Puzo : American Novelist
Born: October 15, 1921
Died: July 2, 1999
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simp…
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for …
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. Virgil…
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but n…
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, i…
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, an…
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simp…
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for …
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. Virgil…
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but n…
Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man wh…
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, i…
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, an…
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s ju…
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is a…
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks o…
No man is good enough to govern another man without the othe…
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arr…
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle m…
Love of man for woman – love of woman for man. That’s the na…
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes l…
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humb…
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames oth…
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exc…
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as …
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who p…
