Robert Jordan
There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.Collection: Darkness
A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.Collection: Buckets
The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.Collection: Dining
A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.Collection: Running
You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.Collection: Men
Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.Collection: Pigs
As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.Collection: Men
It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.Collection: Battle
You must surrender before you can guide.Collection: Surrender
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.Collection: Pigs
You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.Collection: Pleasing Everyone
The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.Collection: Wise
A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Greatness
A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.Collection: Men
There are things worth fighting for.Collection: Fighting
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.Collection: Two
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causesCollection: War
A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fightCollection: Beautiful
Should and would build no bridges.Collection: Bridges
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.Collection: Responsibility
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Collection: Gold
Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.Collection: Running
A spoonful of hope and a cup of despairCollection: Despair
The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.Collection: Lying
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.Collection: Thinking
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 ElayneCollection: Mother
Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.Collection: Husband
The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.Collection: Looks
Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.Collection: Time
Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.Collection: Men
I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)Collection: Eye
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.Collection: Pain
Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.Collection: Sides
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.Collection: Smile
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.Collection: Men
If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.Collection: Wish
A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.Collection: Branches
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.Collection: Understanding
The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.Collection: People
Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.Collection: Arms
If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.Collection: Fighting
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.Collection: Revenge
If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.Collection: Men
I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.Collection: Strong Women
The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!Collection: Golden
Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.Collection: Father
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.Collection: Hands