"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."

"I have heard it said that a man caught between his wife and a Wise One often wishes for a dozen old enemies to fight instead. A man caught between a wife and three Wise Ones, and the wife a Wise One herself, must consider trying to slay Sightblinder."

"A bloody hero. Thom, if I ever look like acting the hero again, you kick me." "And what would you have done differently?" "Just kick me!"

"Better ten days of love than years of regretting."

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

"The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you."

"To lead is neither to push or pull."

"Nimble finger and nimble wits will take you a good deal further than a sword and muscles. Sharp eyes help as well, but fortunately, I have these things."

"It is better to be the hammer than the nail."

"Men fight when they should run, and fools fight when they should run. But I had no need to say it twice."

"I expect a civil word for a civil word!"

"There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat."

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

"You read too much and understand too little."

"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."

"The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern."

"On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers."

"No wine for me. Strange enough things happen when my head is clear. I want to know the difference."

"You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long."