Top 313 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Jordan - Page 3

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon

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 Mat

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.

We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice.

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

I can rest when I'm dead.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

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.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

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.

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

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor

It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

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

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.

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

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

Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

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.

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

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

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

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.

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.

Should and would build no bridges.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

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.

A secret spoken finds wings.

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

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

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

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.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

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

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat

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.

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.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.