Robert Jordan Quotes

Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

But it was an ending.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

I can rest when I'm dead.

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Should and would build no bridges.

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain

The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.

You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.