Robert Jordan Quotes

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Time to toss the dice

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

There are things worth fighting for.

A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

What can't be changed must be endured.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.