Robert Jordan: Trending quotes (page 4)

“What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”

“If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”

“Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef!"
"As my lord says," Nerim murmured. "My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me.”

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

“You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.”

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

“the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses”

“Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.”

“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”

“Women do not become exhausted, they only exhaust others.”

“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”

“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”

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

“You read too much and understand too little.”

“A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.”

“She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.”

“Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.”

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

“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”