Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes. Robert Jordan More Quotes by Robert Jordan More Quotes From Robert Jordan Better to face the bear than run from it. Robert Jordan bears faces running You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen. Robert Jordan who-cares queens children Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man! Robert Jordan mules stones men A man who will not die to save a woman is no man. Robert Jordan dies men It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done. Robert Jordan als battle done The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least. Robert Jordan bosoms wanted looks Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness. Robert Jordan pain pride men I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be. Robert Jordan husband strong order You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone. Robert Jordan pleasing-everyone please 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. Robert Jordan traps break forever If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. Robert Jordan smile coins giving Better to try understanding the sun than a woman. Robert Jordan understanding sun trying Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves. Robert Jordan stubborn men thinking Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon Robert Jordan alive yesterday today To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest. Robert Jordan hornets nests 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 water blood needs 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 break-through stronger enemy i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan. Robert Jordan fire book son Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours. Robert Jordan halfway wells Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path. Robert Jordan queens wise watches