Robert Jordan Quotes

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Nimble finger and nimble wits will take you a good deal further than a sword and muscles. Sharp eyes help as well, but fortunately, I have these things.

Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne], and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.

That was all he ever really wanted from women; a smile, a dance, a kiss, and to be remembered fondly.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

By the Creator at the moment of creation. May we shelter safe beneath the Light, in the Creator’s hand.

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result.

I expect a civil word for a civil word!

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern.

Better to face the bear than run from it.

On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.