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If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.
Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything.
You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.
Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon
There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor
hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.
If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.
Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat
First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.
It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.
Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat
When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?
I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.
The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!
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.