Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

153. “A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”

— Robert Jordan

154. “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

155. “The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. 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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

161. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

163. “Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.”

— Robert Jordan

164. “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

165. “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

166. “Beauty holds more worth than gold.”

— Robert Jordan

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

171. “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

172. “Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”

— Robert Jordan

173. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

189. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

194. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

197. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

199. “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

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

— Robert Jordan