Giovannino Guareschi Quotes

#1. They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;

Marshall McLuhan

#2. Hope makes the soul glad.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.

Paula Hawkins

#4. I don't think I was ever ... trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far ... I wouldn't care.

Demi Lovato

#5. I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

Dee Wallace

#6. You staring at her like that doesn't make her yours."
"Shut up, asshole.

Jay McLean

#7. Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America.

Bernie Sanders

#8. You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

Giovannino Guareschi

#9. My body is an instrument for me to use.

Emmanuelle Beart

#10. I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

John Steinbeck

#11. Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

Giovannino Guareschi

#12. Sometimes, in the course of long summer evenings, the friends would take a stroll together in the Wild Wood, now successfully tamed so far as they were concerned; and it was pleasing to see how respectfully they were greeted by the inhabitants, and how

Kenneth Grahame

#13. It may get worse before it gets better. But it WILL get better.

Debby Ryan

#14. When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile.

Giovannino Guareschi

#15. Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future.

Christopher Fowler

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Giovannino Guareschi