Robert Jordan Quotes

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

You read too much and understand too little.

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.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

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

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

Should and would build no bridges.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

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.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age

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

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.

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

A man can get killed in there.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it?" "I am just a man," Lan whispered. "That is all I have ever been.

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

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