Robert Jordan
A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.Collection: Trust No One
The fox often offers the duck its pond.Collection: Ducks
It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.Collection: Mind
Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.Collection: Pride
A man can get killed in there.Collection: Men
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.Collection: Men
If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.Collection: Sheep
On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.Collection: Fire
Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.Collection: Cutting
It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.Collection: Enemy
I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.Collection: May
Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a messCollection: Dozen
If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.Collection: Lions
Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -AlannaCollection: War
The wheel weaves as the wheel willsCollection: Wheels
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.Collection: Dragons
Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.Collection: Children
From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.Collection: Song
Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.Collection: Meals
If it's not forbidden, then it's allowedCollection: Forbidden
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.Collection: Battle
Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.Collection: Men
Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!Collection: Men
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.Collection: Art
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.Collection: Lying
A secret spoken finds wings.Collection: Wings
And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.Collection: Passion
He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Wise
You read too much and understand too little.Collection: Littles
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.Collection: Forgiveness
There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.Collection: Eye
A pig painted gold is still a pig.Collection: Pigs
I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.Collection: Trying
Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Memories
Time to toss the diceCollection: Toss
The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.Collection: Way To Live
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. -ElayneCollection: Hunting
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.Collection: Lying
To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.Collection: Fighting
Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.Collection: Sweet
Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.Collection: Teaching
It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.Collection: Brave
i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.Collection: Book
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.Collection: Old Friends
Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.Collection: Exhausted
The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.Collection: Light
One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.Collection: Running