Robert Jordan: Quotes about men

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

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

“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“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.”

“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”

“I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.
-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world, Wheel of time)”

“As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.”

“You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”

“Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its
foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.”

“Men always say they didn't mean it that way. You would think they spoke a different language.”

“Men believe the worst easily, and women believe it hides something still darker.”

“Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”

“Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.”

“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

“I always thought the stole weighed about as much as three good men. The Amyrlin has few easy decisions to make, and fewer where she can be sure. Do what you must, and pay the price if you’re wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too.”

“Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”