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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 3:06:35 GMT
“Toss to White. He’s in. Patriots win the Super Bowl! Brady has his fifth! What a comeback!”
Super Bowl 51
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Post by stoic on Oct 2, 2017 4:44:12 GMT
"Hünde, wollt ihr euwig leben?" Rascals, would you live forever? Frederick the Great to hesitant guards at the battle of Kolin, 18 June 1757  |
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Post by stoic on Oct 2, 2017 4:47:43 GMT
Alea iacta est Gaius Julius Caesar Can't get much better than a quote like that! Better probably not, but "veni, vidi, vici" is equally famous  |
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Post by Gaius Julius Caesar on Oct 2, 2017 5:37:36 GMT
Can't get much better than a quote like that! Better probably not, but "veni, vidi, vici" is equally famous The fake quote as well: "Et tu Brute?" |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 2, 2017 11:30:03 GMT
Can't get much better than a quote like that! Better probably not, but "veni, vidi, vici" is equally famous Indeed it is and I enjoy both of them😉 |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 2, 2017 11:30:30 GMT
Better probably not, but "veni, vidi, vici" is equally famous The fake quote as well: "Et tu Brute?" Actually nobody knows if it is real or not |
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Post by Gaius Julius Caesar on Oct 2, 2017 13:30:22 GMT
The fake quote as well: "Et tu Brute?" Actually nobody knows if it is real or not Shakespeare made it up. There is no proof to show that Gaius Julius Caesar actually said that, and the chances that Shakespeare was able to find some "quote" from a document, while we don't have access to it today, is near to none. |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 2, 2017 18:10:34 GMT
Actually nobody knows if it is real or not Shakespeare made it up. There is no proof to show that Gaius Julius Caesar actually said that, and the chances that Shakespeare was able to find some "quote" from a document, while we don't have access to it today, is near to none. Do you have access to archives of Rome? I don't, I can't tell if it was made up or found in documents or books or something... |
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Post by Gaius Julius Caesar on Oct 2, 2017 22:10:05 GMT
Shakespeare made it up. There is no proof to show that Gaius Julius Caesar actually said that, and the chances that Shakespeare was able to find some "quote" from a document, while we don't have access to it today, is near to none. Do you have access to archives of Rome? I don't, I can't tell if it was made up or found in documents or books or something... Link: www.kirkcenter.org/bookman/article/et-tu-brute/I think it was the third paragraph down. |
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Post by Gaius Julius Caesar on Oct 2, 2017 22:15:37 GMT
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Post by Tadamichi Kuribayashi on Oct 3, 2017 0:06:59 GMT
"What men would give for this chance at glory! Kill them all brave pilot. Kill them, and laugh!"
-A game message from the game Steambirds: Survival
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Post by Ivan Kolev on Oct 3, 2017 0:59:44 GMT
I have three, all equally as great in my opinion:
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country)."
-British soldier and poet Wilfred Owen, 1917
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
-Japanese general Isoroku Yamamoto, at some point during WWII
"There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island."
-American author Thomas Paine, 1775
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 3, 2017 8:25:03 GMT
I have three, all equally as great in my opinion: "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country)." -British soldier and poet Wilfred Owen, 1917 "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." -Japanese general Isoroku Yamamoto, at some point during WWII "There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island." -American author Thomas Paine, 1775 Actually Yamamoto didn't say that, it was made up by Americans, he actually proposed if there was an attack on mainland USA, they would ask Mexico to join war. |
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Post by Ivan Kolev on Oct 3, 2017 10:44:08 GMT
I have three, all equally as great in my opinion: "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country)." -British soldier and poet Wilfred Owen, 1917 "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." -Japanese general Isoroku Yamamoto, at some point during WWII "There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island." -American author Thomas Paine, 1775 Actually Yamamoto didn't say that, it was made up by Americans, he actually proposed if there was an attack on mainland USA, they would ask Mexico to join war. I will agree with you that the validity of the quote is up for debate, but there is no chance the Japanese thought of recruiting Mexico to join against America in WWII, because by 1942, they had already joined the Allies. They even sent some of their air force to fight in the Pacific. |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Oct 3, 2017 11:24:35 GMT
Actually Yamamoto didn't say that, it was made up by Americans, he actually proposed if there was an attack on mainland USA, they would ask Mexico to join war. I will agree with you that the validity of the quote is up for debate, but there is no chance the Japanese thought of recruiting Mexico to join against America in WWII, because by 1942, they had already joined the Allies. They even sent some of their air force to fight in the Pacific. There's much debate about who wanted to recruit Mexico first, Germany or Japan and Japan planned attack on USA since 1940, and Germany planned attacking USA and Mexico actually was prepared to attack up to 1942 all they asked was 1elite division and some of the elite generals, but well we all know that didn't happen like that😉 |
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