Compiling a list of new "Quotes", medieval era or all eras?

[scivian]

I've been compiling a list of new quotes for MTW2. Please contribute quotes you like and the names of people who deserve to be quoted.

[The Walrus]

Broaden to include all eras. History often repeats itself and quotes can fit in many eras

[Serious Spamurai]

Okay, we'll try this again, the forum is being majorly buggy. The quotes provide more of an immersion value than an advice/help value, I think it's best to keep them medieval.

[Wolfcp11]

Broaden to all areas, if they still apply, of course.

[Saibot]

Broaden to all era's. All era's had their own quotes and comments and a lot of them apply to many things.

[Kalos]

I want this quote included:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
-George W Bush.

[scivian]

Re Kalos:

Done; regardless of poll outcome.

[Allu X]

add this quote

"get 1% better everyday and you'll be 365% better at the end of the year"

change the words to make them more medieval though :p

e.g. thee thy etc
lol

[The Walrus]

"He who runs with aggression walks with no dignity."-Confucius

Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill

Death poems
are mere delusion-
death is death. -Toko

"Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed." - Winston Churchill


"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
-- William Shedd

“Look death in the face with joyful hope, and consider this a lasting truth:
the righteous man has nothing to fear, neither in life,
nor in death, and the gods will not forsake him.” - Socrates

How are those?

[Ekeh Mayu]

"This is Sparta!"
"Tonight, we dine in hell!"
"Spartans, what's your profession"

-Leonidas-

=)

[scivian]

I vote for all eras.

Sir Dinadan, Looking at your posts you must be from the UK, yea? As an American I'm qualified to say Churchill sure knows his American counterparts. Socrates(Plato actually) is always welcome... takes me back... what a righteous stance.

Ekeh Mayu, what a terrible movie, I'm pissed a payed a buck to rent it. Id be willing to bet those aren't from Leonidas. Though the arrows blocking out the sun quote is classic and will probably make the cut. Even if it was in RTW.

[The Walrus]

On-topic:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-Voltaire

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct - Cicero

There will always exist an urge for elitism where the elite is forced to mingle with the common peasantry.

- Sir Wilbur, III Baron of Wetsexx.

[War's] glory is all moonshine; even success most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families.
— William Tecumseh Sherman

"The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win." -Zhuge Liang

"War does not decide who is right... only who is left." -Bertrand Russell


"The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it." ~Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)

You can also check the quotes thread in the VV for more quotes.

Off-topic:Actually, I've never set foot in the UK. I have always lived in America

[Kalos]

Sweet! Stupid leader quotes ftw.

[Haqiq]

"Better to die in honor than die in shame"
-Classic Malay proverb.

"Better to be hit in the front rather in the back"
-Classic Malay proverb

"Let hard work win than be disappointed later"
-Classic Malay proverb

Both are very very old.

[Krusadr]

Theres 2 kinds of people in this world. greeks, and everybody else who wish they was greek.

-Any one of some 10 million Greek people living in Greece.

[Ketzerfreund]

Greetings,

most of the quotes I can see here are neat, but this one

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

really doesn't fit at all.

I voted for medieval quotes, since I like things in tune with each other. :p
Having to read a modern quote when playing a game in a medieval setting would spoil the atmosphere for me.

-Der Ketzerfreund.

[Empress Meg]

Call me narrow-minded , but I like the idea of keeping to the theme. I've always thought there are so many excellent quotes for each time period that to add quotes from other time periods would take away from the medieval period's quotes.

Devoirs The Empress

[T-wester]

Call me narrow-minded , but I like the idea of keeping to the theme. I've always thought there are so many excellent quotes for each time period that to add quotes from other time periods would take away from the medieval period's quotes.

Devoirs The Empress

I second that
if you in the medieval era, heard qoutes from collin powell or stalin you properly would be burned as a heretic