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.
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.
Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.