The Official Quote Suggestion Thread

[Mao]

damn...

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</font>I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but I know that World War IV will be fought with stones and sticks
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-Albert Einstein

[maybe not exactly, but close]

[Scouse Gits]

"Your decadent lifestyle makes us sick" Aztec herald

"Were the British army to be commanded by people that knew what they were doing, war would begin to smack of slaughter!" Duke of Cardigan (I think)

"No soldier ever served his country by dying for it - rather by making the other b*st**d die for his" General Paton

"War is something that knocks the L out of Glory" anon

"War is the diplomats vacation period" Robert R Young

"War correspondent: a man hired by a newspaper to guess what an army will do next" anon

"War is a matter much too important to be left to the generals" George Clemenceau

"War is a continuation of politics by other means" Clausewitz


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The SGs in Conclave

[DanQ]

Ummm Sparrowhawk... I don't think so.

As for the others, keep 'em coming folks.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Sparrowhawk]

DanQ, as I tried to indicate in my post, not the whole song as a quote but any verse of the song could apply to Civilization.

(I think the whole song would require a lot longer then 3 seconds, maybe even longer than 5 seconds , to read)

But seriously, Masters of War, how more Civ related can you get?

[Slingshot]

How about:

"blah blah blah... and this time we are backed by POINTED STICKS!"

[Scouse Gits]

just got this one by email:
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</font>War dims hope for peace
-- Newpaper headline
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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor

[darkgrendel]

Hmmm... great idea (maybe), if you've got the space on the server. And it'd slow it down somewhat.

Anyway, I've got this program on my calculator that I made called QuoteGen. Basically what it is is a bunch of random number generators and slots full of words- nouns, adjectives, verbs, endings of sentences, etc. You get stuff like "My cheese has left the building" and whatnot. It can be pretty funny.
Just a thought.

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darkgrendel
Moderator at Quantum 9

Creator of Born To Rule: a war-sim with unmoderated OT

"Al - Icn bin ein Tobacco Farmer - Gore (shudder)"
-tfs99

[DaveV]

Thanks for the link, SnowFire. Here are a couple more Shakespeare quotes, courtesy of that site:

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. - Prospero, Act 4, Scene 1, The Tempest

Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war
- Antony, Act 3, Scene 1, Julius Caesar

[Hugo Rune]

Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept
All by the name of dogs: the valued file
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
According to the gift which bounteous nature
Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive
Particular addition from the bill
That writes them all alike: and so of men.
Now, if you have a station in the file,
Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't;
And I will put that business in your bosoms,
Whose execution takes your enemy off,
Grapples you to the heart and love of us,
Who wear our health but sickly in his life,
Which in his death were perfect.

Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 1.
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[Mao]

Hey Mark, are you ever going to change the quote? If so, how often? Just curious

[reismark]

Here are some of my favorite humorous ones:

"If you can remember the Sixties, then you weren't there."
---Anonymous

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
---Lee Iacocca

"Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly."
---Off a Superman costume label

"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them."
---George H.W. Bush

"You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
---Translation in a Japanese hotel

MAN RUN OVER BY FREIGHT TRAIN DIES
---Headline from the Los Angeles Times

Knock yourself out laughing here: http://www.quoteland.com/quotes/leisure

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reismark@nycmail.com
"Please provide the date of your death." - IRS letter
The Millennium is Here! Run For Your Lives!!
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[rah]

I don't get a chance to read the quotes on most days since it doesn't stay on the screen long enough.

RAH
Testicles, the other white meat.

[don Don]

Should be:
"No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy" —Some British upper-class twit

"No poor SOB ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor SOB die for his country" —George Patton

I think reismark's quote about the sixties was a George Carlin line, maybe. Which reminds me:

"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten" —George Carlin

What a diplomat, that George Carlin!

For all the B5 fans out there:
"Spoo, the other blue meat!"

OK, not so Civ-ish. RAH's sig line reminded me of it

[Narck]

bump

[klesh]

"We stand to stride the world like a Colosus, noble leader..."
-Military Advisor

"If Hitler invaded Hell I would at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in Parliament."
-Winston Churchill

"I shall return."
-Douglas MacArthur

"Surgeon no longer virgin!"
-Lieutenant Commander John Burnside, Captain of the submarine Sturgeon after sinking it's first Japanese sub.

"There is a vast difference between keeping out of war and pretending this war is none of our buisness."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I am the Ukrainian Anti-Pope!
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