Robert Jordan: Quotes about men

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“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.”

Robert Jordan

Thom Merrilin
(15 October 1991)

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

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

al'Lan Mandragoran
Variant: There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."
Source: The Great Hunt (15 November 1990)

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

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: New Spring

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

Robert Jordan

Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 November 1990)

“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”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

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

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven

Lini
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Fires of Heaven

“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.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

“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”

Robert Jordan

“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)”

Robert Jordan

“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.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

“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.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Elyas Machera
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World

“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.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

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

Robert Jordan

Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 October 1994)

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

Robert Jordan

Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1994)

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

Robert Jordan

Perrin Aybara
(15 January 1990)

“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.”

Robert Jordan

Nandera to Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)

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

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords

Nandera
A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)

“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.”

Robert Jordan

Siuan Sanche to Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1994)

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

Robert Jordan

Min Farshaw
(15 October 1991)