Guareschi Don Quotes & Sayings

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset. — Victor Borge

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest.
- Don Camillo — Giovannino Guareschi

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks. — Sappho

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show. — David Wain

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again. — Pharrell Williams

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches. — Jodi Picoult

When people tell me they can't afford to join a gym, I tell them to go outside; planet Earth is a gym and we're already members. Run, climb, sweat, and enjoy all of the natural wonder that is available to you. — Steve Maraboli

When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile. — Giovannino Guareschi

... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals. — Tania Aebi

It's not ever easy telling a person what they don't want to hear. Because we love them! There will be times; we have to do things in life that will break our own heart. — Ron Baratono

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! — Giovannino Guareschi

The ocean of the past, I still hide from so much of it and rely on all that I don't run from. Everything before him, I waited for the nightmare to end, and it did when he accepted me into his arms. It was a new birth, a new life, but it flashed too briefly and left me with only these rabid bits of time that eat me, these memories that haunt me, but he, the ghost I need, remains lost. — Edward J. Rathke

No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share. — Giovannino Guareschi