Robert Jordan: Trending quotes (page 11)

“The fox often offers the duck its pond.”

“There are things worth fighting for.”

“Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.”

“Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”

“It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.”

“We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right.”

“The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.”

“First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.”

“In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.”

“Men fight when they should run, and fools fight when they should run. But I had no need to say it twice.”

“You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.”

“Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.”

“Fall in love with a man, and you end up doing laundry, even if it does belong to another man.”

“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?”

“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.”

“We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long is it turns….”

“The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse.”

“If I could find a way to escape my destiny, do I deserve to?”

“A man should never give promises in bed.”