Robert Jordan
To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.Collection: Nests
Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!Collection: Men
Better to face the bear than run from it.Collection: Running
If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.Collection: Trying
You ride to battle?" Karede asked. "I was thinking more of a saunter," Mat said. He shook his head. "I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?Collection: Thinking
Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.Collection: Cheer
The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.Collection: Eggs
Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.Collection: Thinking
I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.Collection: Giving
Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.Collection: Necks
Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.Collection: Wells
A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.Collection: Break Through
It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.Collection: Fool
The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.Collection: Men
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.Collection: Eye
I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statementCollection: Stupidity
No man should have another man's voice in his head.Collection: Men
May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan PendragonCollection: May
Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.Collection: Sleep
Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.Collection: Optimistic
The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.Collection: Way
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan sayingCollection: Daggers
If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.Collection: Goes On
The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.Collection: Men
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.Collection: Dragons
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.Collection: Son
I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.Collection: Surrender
Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.Collection: Wise
You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease." -General Galgan to MatCollection: Would Be
A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattressCollection: Jealous
The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.Collection: Want
Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to MatCollection: Eye
The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.Collection: Dark
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.Collection: Men
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.Collection: Men
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.Collection: Trouble
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.Collection: Fire
Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.Collection: Love Is
A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.Collection: Horse
Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.Collection: Waiting
It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.Collection: Kings
Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything.Collection: Forgiving
Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.Collection: Men
The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.Collection: Way
Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.Collection: Men
A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.Collection: Men
I do not like odd things until I can understand them.Collection: Odd Things
As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.Collection: Beef
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.Collection: Light