Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon
Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.
These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.