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Comments or corrections?

Korvessa08 Nov 2014 3:36 p.m. PST

In deciding to learn history from Hollywood, you chose poorly.

thosmoss08 Nov 2014 4:11 p.m. PST

Never wage a land war in Asia.

Zargon08 Nov 2014 4:21 p.m. PST

"Fratres! Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line. Stay with me. If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled; for you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!"

Still cool though, wish he had done it in Latin with sub titles below, that. Would have been truly epic.
Anyway the plebs of today are about as interested in the truth as they were then.
partim iubentium

skippy000108 Nov 2014 4:44 p.m. PST

"Wellington is beaten! What's wrong with you?!? You were with me at Marengo! I lost the battle at 5 o'clock AND WON IT BACK AGAIN AT SEVEN!!!!!

Only Rod Steiger could make that line work.

dBerczerk08 Nov 2014 4:55 p.m. PST

Nothing difficult is ever easy.

Grumpy Monkey08 Nov 2014 5:09 p.m. PST

Oh f@@k it, I'll do the fight for free

-Mickey O'Neil

John the OFM08 Nov 2014 5:14 p.m. PST

If there is no solution, then there is no problem.

Dn Jackson Supporting Member of TMP08 Nov 2014 6:04 p.m. PST

Never bet with a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Bill McHarg08 Nov 2014 7:09 p.m. PST

"Oh hell, I'll drive it"

Chris in The Magnificent Seven

Dave Jackson Supporting Member of TMP08 Nov 2014 7:13 p.m. PST

"Of all the things I've lost, I think I miss my mind the most"…Ozzie Osbourne

The G Dog Fezian08 Nov 2014 7:33 p.m. PST

"It's a trap!" – Admiral Akbar

sneakgun08 Nov 2014 9:01 p.m. PST

And this too, shall pass.

Ferbs Fighting Forces09 Nov 2014 4:17 a.m. PST

"War, war, war, that's all you think about, Dick Plantagenet!" Virginia Mayo in "King Richard and the Crusaders"

dBerczerk09 Nov 2014 4:36 a.m. PST

Mongol General: What is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

Rhysius Cambrensis09 Nov 2014 5:57 a.m. PST

What is best in life?

Cohen The Barbarian: hot water, good dentistry, and shoft toilet paper!

From Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels.

Roderick Robertson Fezian09 Nov 2014 9:24 a.m. PST

"It's got my troops all over it. That makes it mine."

– The Lion in Winter

Personal logo The Virtual Armchair General Sponsoring Member of TMP09 Nov 2014 11:56 a.m. PST

"We will all eat lamb in Paradise!"

Sean Connery's "Highland Berber," the Raisuli.

Cuchulainn09 Nov 2014 3:56 p.m. PST

"Duck You Sucker!"

James Coburn in "A Fistful Of Dynamite".

vtsaogames09 Nov 2014 8:18 p.m. PST

"You are not God?" Billy Fish in Man Who Would be King.

capncarp11 Nov 2014 4:43 p.m. PST

"When somebody asks if you are a god, you say _*YES*_!!!!!" Winston Zedemore, Ghostbusters.

and

"Never bite the hand that wipes your butt." Mom Daniel

Tyler32613 Nov 2014 8:01 a.m. PST

Winston Churchill at a party :
She says: "You sir are drunk!"
He replies: "Yes I am. But in the morning I shall be sober , where as you will still be ugly!"

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