To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
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.
If it’s not forbidden, then it’s allowed.
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men’s heads.
Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!
Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.
Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.
The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn’t waste time raising a weak boy.