loading screen quotes

**SpencerH** · 08-14-2006, 14:25

I hope they dont have loading screen quotes. They're fun for the first couple of times then they become repetitive and annoying (like the assassin etc cut scenes).

**Tamur** · 08-14-2006, 19:20

lol JFC!

Ibn Khaldun's work is full of these sorts of quotes, I'll just throw a couple in...

"When a dynasty is firmly established, it can dispense with group feeling." - Ibn Khaldun

"A closed formation is like a long wall or a well-built castle which no one could hope to move." - Ibn Khaldun

"Who asks if fraud or force availed the foe?" - William of Malmesbury

**Silver Rusher** · 08-14-2006, 19:37

"All your base are belong to us." -Macchiavelli

A truly inspirational quote from a fine military writer.

**Little Legioner** · 08-14-2006, 21:56

Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will her leader be, and what a wonderful army will that army be! Prophet Muhammed

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. Ali ibn Abi Talip

Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor. Ali ibn Abi Talip

Failures are often the results of timidity and fears; disappointments are the results of bashfulness; hours of leisure pass away like summer-clouds, therefore, do not waste opportunity of doing good. Ali ibn Abi Talip

I am Sultan Suleyman Han, son of Sultan Selim Han, son of Sultan Bayezid Han. I am Suleyman. To the east I am the Lawgiver. To the west I am the Magnificent. Suleyman I The Magnificent

**Kourutsu** · 08-15-2006, 00:21

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
-Georges Clemenceau

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
-George Orwell

Well, we'll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite!
-King Arthur

You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur King," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts.
-A French soldier addresses King Arthur

**Hepcat** · 08-15-2006, 00:50

"To deliver the city to you, is neither my right nor the right of any other of its inhabitants, as we all, by common opinion, are going to die defending ourselves and we will not spare our lives." - Emperor Constantine XI

"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one" - Pope John XXIII

"I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman" - King James I

**TB666** · 08-15-2006, 01:33

Remember, there's always something cleverer than yourself.
-Merlin
I remember my first joust. It looks far worse than it feels!
- Sir Ector
For by the law of God, no knight who is false can win in combat with one who is true.
- King Arthur

All from the movie Excalibur.

**Horatius** · 08-15-2006, 05:10

"You have grown to attached to that blonde head of yours that you have become far too afraid to lose it"-Gerard de Rideford

So what does it matter what you say? Saladins wealth is noble plunder for us, and as for his army which you say is of the greatest size in all the world that only adds more fuel for the devels fire"-Reynald de Chattallion