Lessons from the Don

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO LEARN IN LIFE IS IN THE GODFATHER MOVIES:

1 "No Sicilian can refuse any request on his daughter's wedding day."
2.In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
3.A man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
4.My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
5.Don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.
6.It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
7.Women and children can be careless. But not men.
8.Mr. Corleone never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood?
9.You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing.
10.We don't discuss business at the table.
11.Never let anyone outside the family know what you're thinking.
12.I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Just my enemies.
13.Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
14.Don't trust a doctor who can hardly speak English.
15.Leave the gun, take the cannoli."
16.I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands.
17.Don't ask me about my business
18.Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
19.Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
20.It's dangerous to be an honest man.
21.Power wears out those who do not have it.
22.Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in.
23.When they come... they come at what you love.
24.Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.
25.The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
26.The sicker you get, the wiser you get, When I'm dead I'm gonna be really smart.
27.Goddamn FBI don't respect nothin'.
28.Monday -- Tuesday -- Thursday -- Wednesday -- Friday -- Sunday -- Saturday
29.I don't like violence, I'm a businessman. Blood is a big expense.
30.It's not personal. It's business.

Godfather Quotes and Lines

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

"So the next day, my father went to see him; only this time with Luca Brasi. An' within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1000. [Kay: "How'd he do that?"] My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse. [Kay: "What was that?"] Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract. That's a true story. That's my family, Kay, it's not me."

"No Sicilian can refuse any request on his daughter's wedding day."

"Today I settled all Family business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo."

"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."

"Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever."

"I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life--I don't apologize--to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those bigshots. I don't apologize--that's my life--but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. [Michael: Another pezzonovante] Well, this wasn't enough time, Michael. It wasn't enough time. [Michael: We'll get there, pop. We'll get there.]"

"My father taught me many things ... keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

"Fredo, you're nothing to me now; not a brother, not a friend. I don't want to know you, or what you do."

"If anything in this life is certain; If history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone."

"I can handle things, I'm smart, not like everybody says. Not dumb, I'm smart, and I want respect!"

"Whatcha go to college to get stupid? You're really stupid!"

"We're all part of the same hypocrisy, Senator. But never think it applies to my family."

"I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive."

"When Pop had troubles, did he ever think that maybe by trying to be strong, and trying to protect his family, that he could lose it instead?"

"[I will never work for you. I have bad memories.] I'll always be your son, but I will never have anything to do with your business."

"I betrayed my wife. I betrayed myself. I killed men and I ordered men to be killed. Ah, it's useless... I killed -- I ordered the death of my brother. He injured me. I killed my mother's son. I killed my father's son."

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. [Our true enemy has not yet shown his face.]"

"I would burn in Hell to keep you safe."

"Times change. These days, we learn from the philanthropists like the Rockefellers. First you rob everybody, then you give to the poor."

"When they come, they'll come at what you love."

"All my life I kept trying to go up in society. Where everything higher up was legal. But the higher I go, the crookeder it becomes. Where the hell does it end?"

"You know Michael, now that you're so respectable, I think you're more dangerous than you ever were. In fact, I prefer you when you were just a common Mafia hood."

"Never hate your enemies -- it effects your judgement."

"Politics and crime -- they're the same thing."

"I swear on the lives of my children -- give me a chance to redeem myself, and I will sin no more."

"Nephew, from this moment forward, call yourself Vincent Corleone."