Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.”

— Robert Jordan

152. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

157. “If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.”

— Robert Jordan

158. “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

159. “Why, to see, Loial said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I read the books, all the travelers’ accounts, and it began to burn in me that I had to see, not just read.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

164. “I figured that once you’ve decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize?”

— Robert Jordan

165. “Beauty holds more worth than gold.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

168. “Fear will kill you if you don’t control it.”

— Robert Jordan

169. “The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

171. “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

172. “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

173. “People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.”

— Robert Jordan

174. “If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

178. “Confidence was one key to victory. The other side believing you were confident was sometimes almost as good as actually being confident.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

180. “He strains to hear a whisper who refuses to hear a shout.”

— Robert Jordan

181. “Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

186. “Well, we’ll survive, the Light willing.” Some grinned and added, “And if the Light doesn’t will, we’ll still survive.”

— Robert Jordan

187. “What is the best method of appeasing an offended party? Would it not be to give some ground to them, acknowledge what they have done right?”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

189. “The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

191. “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

192. “Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.”

— Robert Jordan

193. “Not all options will be good ones. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad lot and ride the storm.”

— Robert Jordan

194. “I never saw or heard or smelled anything that couldn’t be talked about.”

— Robert Jordan

195. “Strong endures; hard shatters.” Cadsuane.”

— Robert Jordan

196. “Why? Rand thought with wonder. Because each time we live, we get to love again.”

— Robert Jordan

197. “Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.”

— Robert Jordan

198. “The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him. Two.”

— Robert Jordan

199. “It was beyond unwise to enter battle angry. Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.”

— Robert Jordan

200. “Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.”

— Robert Jordan