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A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

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

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

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

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

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

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

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

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

A man without trust is a man without life.

A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

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

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

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

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.

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

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.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

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.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

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

Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

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.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.