"I trust you like a brother. Until the day you betray me. You have a parole for what you’ve done, in return for your teaching, and a better bargain than you deserve, but the day you turn against me, I will tear it up and bury it with you."

"Better to try understanding the sun than a woman."

"Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path."

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

"Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars."

"Never gamble without knowing a back way out."

"I can rest when I’m dead."

"The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse."

"The fox often offers the duck its pond."

"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."

""Wish" and "want" trip the feet, but "is" makes the path smoother."

"I will see you tonight. Or I will see you dead."

"I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again."

"It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down."

"I’m no lord. I’ve more respect for myself than that."

"Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn’t worth the trouble."

"If you are not mine, then you are dead."

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

"There’s no point letting honey age too long before you eat it."

"It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff."

"The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule."

"A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey."

"The best way to apologize to a man is to trip him in a secluded part of the garden."

"Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked."

"The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death."

"Victors write history."

"At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying."

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

"A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides."

"Better to face the bear than run from it."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Weep for what is lost forever."

"When the honey’s out of the comb, there’s no putting it back."

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

"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."

"If you don’t look for snakes, you cannot complain when one bites you."

"A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what’s inside first."

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

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

"Not thinking about a thorn doesn’t make it hurt your foot less."

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

"...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."

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

"We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right."

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

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

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