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Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.

Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.

Who'd have thought an Aiel could bloody read?

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

I am Rand al'Thor!" he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. "I am the Dragon Reborn!

Light's truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor.
-Logain

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

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

He could end it. Only, he could not. He was going to die, perhaps the world would die, but he could not make himself kill another woman. Somehow

Whatever can be done, can be undone.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.

All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

Blood and bloody ashes. Even dead women treated him the way Nynaeve did. Where did they learn it? Were there secret lessons?

At present, talk of negotiations is limited to five Sitters,

Yamada might be a good general - Mat did not know - but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.

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

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

Be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager

Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.

There was ji in caring for those who could not care for themselves.

A woman forgives but never forgets, A man forgets but never forgives

Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for.

Blank eyes. Empty eyes. A doll's eyes. Eyes more dead than death.

You could forget who you were if you forgot where you came from, and sometimes the innkeeper's daughter from Emond's Field seemed a stranger to her.

The aroma of kaf," Turak said, "is almost as enjoyable as the flavor.

The pin was the smallest part of a pair of scissors, and the easiest made, but without it, the scissors cut no cloth.

Min, you're a friend," he protested. "I don't think of you as a woman." It was the wrong thing to say; he knew it as soon as the words left his mouth.

A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up.

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

Canluum, Lan paid as little attention to the stares he

There was a wild light in his eyes. Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.

Not all options will be good ones. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad lot and ride the storm.

You must surrender before you can guide.

The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.

Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

There were more important uses for that time. One thing at a time, and the most important first. That was his way.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Dance well with a woman, he thought smugly, and she's halfway yours.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

No plan of battle survives first contact,

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.

It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.

You will do well.

Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself.

Perrin sighed, and shrugged again. She had not asked him to keep the beard, and she would not. Yet he knew he was going to put off shaving again.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

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.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

May we see the sun rise together, shade of my heart.

A man can get killed in there.

You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel. You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision.

Its time to role the dice.

Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.

I'm only an old gleeeman,' he said from the door. 'Who could I possibly be dangerous to?

A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.

The wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

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

You'd be surprised what my Asha'man would dare.

What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?

He let them be heroes.

There were questions one asked, and questions one did not. That was strong custom. And friendship.

Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.

If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.

The Grave is no bar to my call."

"Let whosoever sounds me think not of glory, but only of salvation.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

A hunter? You? You can not be a hunter. You are a GIRL. - Perin Ibarra to Faiel, in the Dragon Reborn

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.

Greed nibbled every man, and strict "rules" could be bent if opportunity walked past and winked suggestively enough. Mat

Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Light, Egwene thought. I wonder how long it's been since a meeting of this scale occurred.

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

Suddenly, Olver felt a deep warmth. He had lost so many peolpe, but one of them ... one ... had come back for him.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.