Robert Jordan Men Quotations

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

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.

Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong. -Matrim Cauthon

As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.

You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while...

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

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

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

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.

A man should never give promises in bed.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

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.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

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

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.

A man can get killed in there.

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.

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it?" "I am just a man," Lan whispered. "That is all I have ever been.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

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

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

A man without trust is a man without life.

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

I know how to take a man out of his miseries. Give him a swift kick, or else get him drunk and find him a pr-...

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne