Monday, May 12, 2008

Best Civ4 quotes - Part I

Fishing: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu

Hunting: "If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both." - Native American Saying

Sailing: "You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails." - Unknown

Archery: "Do not throw the arrow which will return against you." - Kurdish Proverb

Metal Casting: "And them that take the sword shall perish by the sword." - The Bible, Matthew

Literature: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Sir Francis Bacon

Alphabet: "Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." - The Buddha

Compass: "The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Constitution: "No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed, except by the lawful judgment of his peers." - The Magna Carta

Fascism: "The great masses of the people... Will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler (Misatributted)

Engineering: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Music: "If music be the food of love, play on." - William Shakespeare

Paper: "I cannot live without books" - Thomas Jefferson

Assembly Line: "People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black." - Henry Ford

Education: "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." - Ali bin Abi-Talib

Replaceable Parts: "The whole is more than the sum of its parts." - Aristotle

Biology: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

Liberalism: "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin (paraphrased)

Gunpowder: "You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." - Al Capone

Democracy: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Winston Churchill

Corporation: "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce

Communism: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara

Ecology: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children" - Native American Song

Artillery: "Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl." - Frederick the Great

Electricity: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." - Thomas Edison

Industrialism: "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." - Henry Ford

Computers: "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Steve Wozniak

Mass media: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde

Future tech: "The future will be better tomorrow." - Dan Quayle



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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Genial demasiado bueno. La de la carta magna referencia un documento histórico sin precedentes para la democracia: La ley debe respetarla hasta el rey, nadie podrá ser encarcelado, o de alguna forma destruido sin un juicio justo.