A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling. Robert Jordan More Quotes by Robert Jordan More Quotes From Robert Jordan It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff. Robert Jordan cliffs mind too-late The fox often offers the duck its pond. Robert Jordan ponds ducks foxes What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn? Robert Jordan dragons hate enough If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead. Robert Jordan too-much ifs hurt In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different. Robert Jordan different men children You must surrender before you can guide. Robert Jordan surrender guides My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter. Robert Jordan mother brain men A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers. Robert Jordan names two mean I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber. Robert Jordan want window thinking A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first. Robert Jordan fool tree hands Better ten days of love than years of regretting. Robert Jordan wheel-of-time regret years A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense. Robert Jordan goats fighting honor For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon. Robert Jordan old-friends wish enemy If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs. Robert Jordan knives horse trying 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 different heart culture I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation. Robert Jordan choices character thinking Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again. Robert Jordan disease Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build. Robert Jordan belief giving order Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier. Robert Jordan knives easier men Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm. Robert Jordan arms men hands
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