Robert Jordan: Man

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“You cannot tell a man he has the power to make the earth shake, then expect him to walk small.”

Robert Jordan

Mazrim Taim
(15 October 1994)

“A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.”

Robert Jordan

Lini
(15 October 1993)

“A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”

Robert Jordan

Davram Bashere
(15 October 1994)

“The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.”

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Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)

“When a young woman's cheeks redden for no apparent reason, there is usually a man involved.”

Robert Jordan

Sorilea to Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1994)

“No man should have another man's voice in his head.”

Robert Jordan

Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)

“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.”

Robert Jordan

Moiraine Damodred
(15 October 1994)

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

Robert Jordan

Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)

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

Robert Jordan

al'Lan Mandragoran to Rand al'Thor
(15 November 1990)

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

Robert Jordan

Min Farshaw
(15 October 1993)

“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.”

Robert Jordan

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)

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

Robert Jordan

Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)

“A man should never give promises in bed.”

Robert Jordan

Rand al'Thor
(11 October 2005)

“A ship is alive, and he is like a man, with a true man’s heart. Treat him well and care for him properly, and he will fight for you against the worst sea. He will fight to keep you alive even after the sea has long since given him his own deathstroke. Neglect him, though, ignore the small warnings he gives of danger, and he will drown you in a flat sea beneath a cloudless sky.”

Robert Jordan

Jorin din Jubai White Wing
(15 September 1992)

“The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.”

Robert Jordan

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)

“The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.”

Robert Jordan

Arad Doman saying
(15 October 1993)

“A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.”

Robert Jordan

Shienaran saying
(15 November 1990)

“Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn’t worth the trouble.”

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Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1993)

“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.”

Robert Jordan

Aviendha
(15 October 1991)