Famous Mafia Don Quotes & Sayings

An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station. — Michael Winner

Gratitude is the appreciation of things that are not deserved, earned or demanded - those wonderful things that we take for granted. — Renee Paule

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. — Marcus Aurelius

Over the course of a season, you'll get goals that are good disallowed and you'll get disallowed goals that are good. — Kevin Keegan

Writers always know whether you like them or not. — Leslie Fiedler

[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book. — Louise Erdrich

To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core. — John Bradshaw

You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there. — Tod Goldberg

Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's. — John Colville