Robert Jordan Quotes

I have heard it said that a man caught between his wife and a Wise One often wishes for a dozen old enemies to fight instead. A man caught between a wife and three Wise Ones, and the wife a Wise One herself, must consider trying to slay Sightblinder.

If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

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.

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

...but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

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

Do you know how to unite the people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes.

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

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

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don’t need to see the silverpike to know they are there.

Should and would build no bridges.