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I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
Sep 17, 2025
Better to face the bear than run from it.
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -Alanna
Better ten days of love than years of regretting.
The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.
Much ado there was, God wot; He woold love, and she woold not, She sayd, "Never man was trewe;" He sayes, "None was false to you."
Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.
Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.
The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.
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.
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
"I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit-"and let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself-that wot my opinions respectin' flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time."
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.
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.
A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.
Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.
I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.
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.
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
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