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The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?
The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.
If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon
There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.
Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.
Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement
We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.
Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.
To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---