You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you’re trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.
If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they’re worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.
When the honey’s out of the comb, there’s no putting it back.
If you fell head first into a pigsty, you’d try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.
You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don’t need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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.
Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours.
Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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.
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
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.
Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.