Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man’s life turn alike without pity or mercy.
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.
If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.
The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?
In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
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.
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 fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what’s inside first.
The fox often offers the duck its pond.
A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
I can rest when I’m dead.
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 shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.
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.