Robert Jordan

"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes."

"Weep for what is lost forever."

"What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads."

"Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it."

"You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way."

"Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are."

"The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie."

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

"The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death."

"When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman."

"I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all."

"The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men. And women."

"Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute."

"Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."

"An Aes Sedai never lies, but the truth she speaks, may not be the truth you think you hear."

"A pig painted gold is still a pig."

"Perrin ran a hand through his hair. The more he found out about kings, the less he liked them."

"It isn't swords or brawn we need now," Nynaeve said, "but brains. Men usually think with the hairs on their chests." She touched her chest absently, as if feeling for something through her coat. "Most of them do."

"Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time."

"In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different."

"Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is."

"Here, southlander, you can't quit while you are winning. Better than when I'm losing."

"Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I."

"It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done."

"There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.""

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

"Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."

"My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter."

"Men! When you cannot win an argument, you either run away or resort to force."

"I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool."

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

"All men dream. But I know dreams for dreams. This is reality."

"A shaping stone, to make us; a testing ground, to prove our worth; and a punishment for the sin."

"You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again."

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

"Should and would build no bridges."

"When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don’t need to see the silverpike to know they are there."

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

"Once you decide to gut a fish, there’s no use waiting till it rots."

"Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes."

"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."

"Do you know how to unite the people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?"

"Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die."

"...but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself."

"Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do."

"Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result."

"Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes."

"One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills."

"If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow."

"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."