Robert Jordan (1948 – 2007)
Under which he is best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series.
A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
Men! When you cannot win an argument, you either run away or resort to force.
The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
Let most men have a finger, and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan chief have a finger, and he will have the entire arm.
You were never meant for greatness, Asmodean, only to follow those who are great.
Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.
"What a strange thing to say," Egwene said. "Why do they use it like that? Peace."
"When you have never known a thing except to dream," Lan replied, heeling Mandarb forward, "it becomes more than a talisman."
Do you have any idea how long it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees?
You must surrender before you can guide.
Besides, you must remember the old saying. Let the lord of chaos rule.
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
And as for words of wisdom, the first she had heard out of him had been a fervent promise never to throw a rock at anyone again, offered after she had paddled his young backside for it.
To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets’ nest.
What can’t be changed must be endured.
At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying.
All men dream. But I know dreams for dreams. This is reality.
The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.
I have heard it said that a man caught between his wife and a Wise One often wishes for a dozen old enemies to fight instead. A man caught between a wife and three Wise Ones, and the wife a Wise One herself, must consider trying to slay Sightblinder.
Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.