Robert Jordan Time Quotations

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

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

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.

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.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

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.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

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

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