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[Roland Ehnström]

Is it something like:
"sandwidches are good in small amounts"

It's "Sweets are good in moderation", I think.

-- Roland

 

[mjs0]

It's "Sweets are good in moderation", I think.

-- Roland

Close...from the XML...

"Snacks are good in moderation."

 

[Xanikk999]

I think this is the most hilarious quote i have ever heard from any leader
Its not the exact words but very close


Catherine: (when furious during war) : Hmmph a leader even I wont sleep with!

 

[drahnier]

I like how you reply "let them eat cake" when you're told that your city is unhealthy.

 

[Jimbo30]

Forget it. I have wigs that are smarter than you are. - Louis XIV

Now that's a good one.

 

[Sodavich]

I'm perplexed that nobody has mentioned the following

(upon meeting and declaring peace)
"May this peace last until there is no room left to expand!"

or

"May this peace last until there is no one else left to conquer!"

 

[CVDon]

I also like: "May the peace last a thousand years."

Then I realized the game spans six thousand years.

 

[vinstafresh]

In a peace negotiation with Roosevelt initiated by me:

'America does not negotiate with terrorists'

Even my civ-hating girlfriend was laughing out loud

 

[DeltaV]

You know, that took a LOT of Googling to find. It's used a million times in forum .sigs, riffed off a jillion times ("We are building a network of extraordinary magnitude"), but original attributions were few and far between.

Such is the way with obscure cult movies.

For those of you who were born after 1970, it's quoting the evil Dr. Klahn from the "Fist full of Yen" segment of "Kentucky Fried Movie".

(The popcorn you are eating has been pissed in - Film at Eleven)

Anyone figure out the "OH YEAH!"?

Future Tech must include the invention of Kool Aid...

 

[Meffy]

Monty Python references show up in a few bits of diplomatic text, and some more "proper" literary allusions too.

"Welcome, Meffy. I am Peter, ruler of all of Russia. You will find me a fair man to deal with - cruel, but fair."

(From a Python skit. Even after being reminded by an interviewer that the famous gangster Dinsdale Piranha once "nailed your head to the floor," one of his victims insists that Dinsdale was "A cruel man... cruel, but fair.")

From Louis XIV: "It is far too late for peace, you silly Mephitic person! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

(It's true, I went along on the Quest for the Holy Grail. I was just out of the cameras' field of view. There was something about hamsters and elderberries too.)

"I have always relied on the kindness of strangers, Meffy. Can you help?"

(Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" -- Blanche Dubois, hapless sister of the Stella at whom Marlon Brando shouted. One gets an odd sensation when Huayna Capac delivers this line.)

"Hello, this is Genghis Khan. Mongolia is not at home right now: please leave your name and number and we'll get back to you when pigs have wings."

( :-D No literary allusion here, but I like the line.)

I seem to recall Huayna or maybe Genghis once saying something like "Meffy, you're everything I've always wanted to be. I really mean that."

 

[CDC989]

"Bah! Let them eat cake!"
The player, after refusing to build an aquaduct in an unhealthy city.

 

[Ramesses]

"Catherine? I like him."

 

[mechaerik]

Holy... 3 years.

 

[Ramesses]

Holy... 3 years.

Oh shi- I didn't even notice the date. Well, blame CDC989.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Yah I was halfway thorugh the thread (its really funny) before I realized that most of the comments are 3 years old...

 

[DrewBledsoe]

Holy... 3 years.

CDC obviously just completed the "Necromancer Quest" in Oblivion :- grants you the power: [Re-Animate Thread, spell duration 3 yrs]

 

[salty mud]

"Gandhi is a deceitful cretin!"

 

[Gwynnja]

Now I've got a warrior, HO HO HO

 

[BakingTheArt]

Ghengis Khan - "Welcome to my yurt, [CT_NAME]! Let us sit upon these horse-hair cushions and discuss many things! Care for some boiled yak?"

Kublai Khan - "Welcome to China, [CT_NAME]! Let us sit upon these golden thrones and discuss many things! Care for some kung pao yak?"

Ghengis Khan - "You're lucky I don't destroy you on sight, [CT_NAME]."

Kublai Khan - "My grandfather would have destroyed you on sight, [CT_NAME]. Alas, but I live in more "civilized" times. What do you want?"

 

[Ramesses]

Ghengis Khan - "Welcome to my yurt, [CT_NAME]! Let us sit upon these horse-hair cushions and discuss many things! Care for some boiled yak?"

Kublai Khan - "Welcome to China, [CT_NAME]! Let us sit upon these golden thrones and discuss many things! Care for some kung pao yak?"

Ghengis Khan - "You're lucky I don't destroy you on site, [CT_NAME].

Kublai Khan - "My grandfather would have destroyed you on sight, [CT_NAME]. Alas, but I live in more "civilized" times. What do you want?"

Like grandfather, like son.