Robert Jordan Quotes
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201. “Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”

— Robert Jordan

202. “You trouble me so, Rand al’Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.”

— Robert Jordan

203. “The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”

— Robert Jordan

204. “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”

— Robert Jordan

205. “As my Lord says, my Lord’s leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.”

— Robert Jordan

206. “You have to have talent to some extent – I certainly hope I have talent – but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.”

— Robert Jordan

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207. “If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.”

— Robert Jordan

208. “When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You’re stunned, but you cannot hear enough.”

— Robert Jordan

209. “A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.”

— Robert Jordan

210. “What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?”

— Robert Jordan

211. “He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!”

— Robert Jordan

212. “Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

— Robert Jordan

213. “What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”

— Robert Jordan

214. “When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don’t need to see the silverpike to know they are there.”

— Robert Jordan

215. “The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.”

— Robert Jordan

216. “I’m not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.”

— Robert Jordan

217. “Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.”

— Robert Jordan

218. “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.”

— Robert Jordan

219. “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.”

— Robert Jordan

220. “Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.”

— Robert Jordan

221. “At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying.”

— Robert Jordan

222. “Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.”

— Robert Jordan

223. “The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.”

— Robert Jordan

224. “You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.”

— Robert Jordan

225. “It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

— Robert Jordan

226. “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.”

— Robert Jordan

227. “Beauty holds more worth than gold.”

— Robert Jordan

228. “The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it’s all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they’re doing something other than what they are.”

— Robert Jordan

229. “There’s no time for winking at the men when you’re busy bailing the boat.”

— Robert Jordan

230. “Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”

— Robert Jordan

231. “Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!”

— Robert Jordan

232. “Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

— Robert Jordan

233. “What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.”

— Robert Jordan

234. “Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result.”

— Robert Jordan

235. “Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men’s heads.”

— Robert Jordan

236. “I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”

— Robert Jordan

237. “Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.”

— Robert Jordan

238. “The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches – if it does not kill you.”

— Robert Jordan

239. “No man should have another man’s voice in his head.”

— Robert Jordan

240. “You must surrender before you can guide.”

— Robert Jordan

241. “Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.”

— Robert Jordan

242. “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.”

— Robert Jordan

243. “You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.”

— Robert Jordan

244. “A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.”

— Robert Jordan

245. “There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.”

— Robert Jordan

246. “The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.”

— Robert Jordan

247. “Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.”

— Robert Jordan

248. “Let the word stand on its own. If it is the right word, it will work without help. If it’s the wrong word, adding other words to it will just make it seem desperate.”

— Robert Jordan

249. “A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.”

— Robert Jordan

250. “If it’s not forbidden, then it’s allowed.”

— Robert Jordan