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Post by Murfios on Nov 25, 2006 19:49:32 GMT
Post some mesoamerican proverbs here. "Self restrain yourself like a opposum*, (stalk) like a jaguar" -adaptation of mayan frase. "Firts men where made from sticks, now they roam as apes" Pasage from Mayan Holy Book
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Post by Filibusteria on Nov 26, 2006 13:49:30 GMT
Do they have to be mesoamerican? Cant they be southamerican?
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Post by rexdacorum on Nov 26, 2006 15:08:23 GMT
We need to get Inca, Mapuche, Aymara proverbs.. as much as it is possible !
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Post by Filibusteria on Nov 26, 2006 17:52:20 GMT
Mapuche: If you kiss the llama, it won't spit at you (Mapuche proverb)
"Doi ng'nenngelu weukei." He who is more astute wins (Mapuche proverb) "Kiñe meu d'ngu, ta m'lei newen" Union is Force(Mapuche proverb)
"Don't try to be like the Cóndor, because the Mountains are High"(Mapuche Proverb)
Diaguita to come...
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Post by Murfios on Dec 1, 2006 3:10:07 GMT
"when the rocks is to heavy don't lift it, push it" Lenca Saying? "Hold that of sand, that best fits your hand" Lenca? "Eat from the tree that has the most pecked fruits" Misquito Proverb
Im not sure if they are 100% true, but I have asked my gardener(his lenca) and my cook(she is misquita)
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Post by RichyG on Dec 1, 2006 10:55:22 GMT
Yikes! someone is rich!
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Post by Murfios on Dec 1, 2006 11:02:56 GMT
:PNahh, where I ive hand labor is cheap.
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Post by SSJVegetaTrunks on Dec 1, 2006 12:43:18 GMT
Where do you live?
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Post by Murfios on Dec 1, 2006 20:43:56 GMT
Central America, Honduras.
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Post by meliritiatl on Apr 1, 2008 12:21:02 GMT
Ok i revive this thread because we nned proverbs. I found some, but they are not aztec. They are military quotes though and they are nice so we may be use them, i dont know.
Military Proverbs and Quotes
"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep." - Italian proverb
"Under a good general there are no bad soldiers." -Chinese proverb
"Though all under heaven be at peace, if the art of war be forgotten there is peril." - Chinese proverb
"A good run is better than a bad stand" Irish saying/proverb
"Shrimp may attack dragons in shallow water." -Traditional Chinese proverb
"Heroes are made by the times." -Traditional Chinese proverb
"True gold does not fear the test of fire." -Traditional Chinese proverb
"When you are the anvil, be patient. When you are the hammer, strike." -Arabian Proverb
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
"The enemy is but weeds to be moved" - Aztec Proverb
"The hammer shatters glass but forges steel." - Russian proverb
"Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice." - Samurai maxim
"Will yourself to stand ready and courageous on the battlefield. In this way, all that is difficult or dangerous will be yours." - The Way of the Samurai
"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates." -F.E. Adcock, British classical scholar
The purpose of all war is peace. - Saint Augustine, 354-430
"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Laws are inoperative in war" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.): Pro Milone.
"War is the continuation of policy(politics) by other means." - Karl von Clausewitz Or "It is clear that war is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means" This is from a translated version of "On War" from 1976
"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." - Georges Clemenceau
"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war." - Georges Clemenceau
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." -General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. " - Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist, ca. 1466–1536
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war" - Desiderius Erasmus
"The God of War hates those who hesitate." - Euripides, 480-406 b.c. Greek tragic dramatist
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility" -British Sea Lord John Fisher
"It is war that shapes peace, and armament that shapes war." - Thomas Fuller
"He who stays on the defensive does not make war, he endures it" - Field Marshal Colmar Baron von der Goltz, 1883
"If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail." - Ulysses S. Grant
"War is the mother of everything." -Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (535-475BC)
"In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons." -Heroditus, greek historian c. 484-425 B.C.
"In war, only the simple succeeds." -Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg
"It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it." - General Robert E. Lee
"War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula" - General George Patton Jr
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. - General George Patton Jr
"Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war!") - Flavius Vegetius Renatus (ca 390 AD), Roman military strategist From "Epitoma rei militaris" (a summary of military matters)
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over. -William Tecumseh Sherman
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. -Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
"The art of war is, in the last result, the art of keeping one’s freedom of action" - Xenophon, Greek historian (c. 430-355 BC)
"A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances." - General George S. Patton
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - General George Patton
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." -General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership." -General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There is no type of human endeavor where it is so important that the leader understands all phases of his job as that of the profession of arms." - Major General James Fry
I must follow them. I am their leader. - Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923
"I have to follow them. I am their leader." -Alexandre-Auguste Ledru-Rollin, Leader of the French Revolution of 1848
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." - Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974
"Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader." - Tacitus, 55-177
"A leader is a man who had the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it." - Harry Truman
"You must love soldiers in order to understand them, and understand them in order to lead them." -Henri Turenne
If someone is willing to do a little searching and help us out here it will be welcome. But remember, we are looking for military quotes, not sth like "if you are a good boy you will grow tall". If you cannot find anything meso and military then we can use some of these, ill try to search some more. Rah, keep those in mind man, i have a feeling these are going to be the ones that we are going to use eventually. Just to have it mesoamerica, dont mention the source, only the proverb or the quote and write "military proverb" or sth if we really need to
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Post by jacobdebroedere on Apr 1, 2008 16:11:58 GMT
"There is nothing like death in war, nothing like the flowery death so precious to Him who gives life." From a poem of Nezahualcoyotl, ruler of Texcoco.
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Post by perszeusz on Apr 1, 2008 21:56:33 GMT
Nice. I'm going to try to get some too
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Post by jacobdebroedere on Apr 2, 2008 11:57:44 GMT
"Munit haec et altera vincit." One defends and the other conquers. Motto of Nova Scotia. "The weakness of the enemy makes our strength." Cherokee proverb. "It is easy to be brave from a distance." Omaha proverb. "Sing your death song and die like a hero going home." Chief Tecumseh - Shawnee. Wikiquote is a good source for proverbs .
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Post by meliritiatl on Apr 3, 2008 3:18:03 GMT
i think we have enough for now. When Rah comes back (and i hope this is soon) we will implement them in game
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Post by Rah'Majashan on Oct 9, 2008 23:49:53 GMT
I'm here, I'm here! I have finally gotten around to putting in the quotes.
Now we just need to edit the transition screens so you can read em :/
Perszuesz, how goes that 2D art?
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