Quotes by Robert Jordan

There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O’ the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the girls be they short or tallThen follow Lord Mat whenever he callsTo dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bears mouth? Would you do it again just because you didnt die?

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

I always say, 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.

If you dont know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

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

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

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.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

A womans eyes cut deeper than a knife.

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

What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren’t dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret.”“Ila was giving me advice on being a woman,” Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see.“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”“That,” Egwene said, “is probably why you make such a bad job of it.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

Who knows a womans heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.