Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.
Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
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.
To lead is neither to push or pull.
Once you decide to gut a fish, there’s no use waiting till it rots.
What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.
Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.
An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.
It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.
Better to face the bear than run from it.
Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.
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.
It’s never over, al’Thor. The battle’s never done.
The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.
You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.