Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

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.

Should and would build no bridges.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

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. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

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.