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“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.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart

“If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”
― Robert Jordan

“Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
― Robert Jordan

“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Time to toss the dice”
― robert jordan

“Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!”
― Robert Jordan

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
and tore the world asunder.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“Read and find out.”
― Robert Jordan

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

“Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.”
― Robert Jordan

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef!"
"As my lord says," Nerim murmured. "My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Hammar moved to stand beside Galad, still groaning on the ground and trying to push himself up. The warder raised his voice to shout, “Who was the greatest blademaster of all time?’

From the throats of dozens of students came a massed bellow. “Jearom, Gaidin!”

“Yes!” Hammar shouted, turning to make sure all heard. “During his lifetime, Jearom fought over ten thousand times, in battle and single combat. He was defeated once. By a farmer with a quarterstaff! Remember that. Remember what you just saw.”

During his lifetime, the greatest blademaster fought over ten thousand times, in battle and single combat. He was defeated once. By a farmer with a quarterstaff! Remember that.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“i can't understand her"
well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”
― robert jordan, The Fires of Heaven

“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.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”
― Robert Jordan

“There is some delight in ale and wine
And some in girls with ankles fine
But my delight, yes always mine
Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows

We will toss the dice however they fall
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall
Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls
To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

-chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I did that, the Horn couldn't save me. The Creator couldn't save me. I would damn myself.”
― Robert Jordan

“Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven