Robert Jordan Quotes - Page 4

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

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

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

There are things worth fighting for.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.

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

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Should and would build no bridges.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.

The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.

The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.