Wheel of Time Sayings

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Andor Sayings

'Mother says a stick and honey always work better than a stick alone.' Elayne (TGH, Ch. 39)

'Should and would build no bridges,' Elayne (TDR, Ch. 13)

Borderlands Sayings

'Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.', an old saying in the Borderlands (TGH, Ch. 6)

'When someone gives you a horse, sheepherder, don’t complain that it isn’t as fast as you’d like.', Lan (TGH, Ch. 6)

'When you can’t win a big victory, sheepherder, learn to settle for the small ones.' Lan to Rand (TGH, Ch. 9)

'Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time.' Hurin (TGH, Ch. 32)

'What you practice too often, you use without thinking.' Ingtar to Rand (TGH, Ch. 44)

Ogier Sayings

'I am afraid they'll say I put a long handle on my axe, … ' - Loial (TEotW, Ch. 36)

Two Rivers Sayings

'Well, we'll survive, the Light willing.' Some grinned and added, 'And if the Light doesn't will, we'll still survive.' Emond’s field men (TEotW, Ch. 1)

'the Light will take care of us all. And if the Light doesn't, well, we'll just take care of ourselves.' Haral Luhan (TEotW, Ch. 7)

'Well, no use trying to put a broken egg back in the shell, I suppose.' Tam al’Thor (TEotW, Ch. 9)

'We have a saying in the Two Rivers. "Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."', Nynaeve (TEotW, Ch. 16)

'An Aes Sedai’s gift is bait for a fish', Mat Cauthon (TGH, Ch. 3)

'A south wind brings a warm guest, a north wind an empty house', Rand al’Thor (TGH, Ch. 3)

'A pig painted gold is still a pig', Rand al’Thor (TGH, Ch. 3)

'talk shears no sheep', Rand al’Thor (TGH, Ch. 3)

'A fool’s words are dust', Rand al’Thor (TGH, Ch. 3)

'As long as you know you deserved to, then you didn’t deserve to.' Nynaeve (TGH, Ch. 39)

'Let's see how the shoe nails onto your hoof.' Perrin thinks to himself about Loial (TDR, Ch. 2)

'One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.' “My da used to say that.” Mat (TDR, Ch. 28)

Other Sayings

'Care and a long life go together, blacksmith.' Lan to Perrin (TEotW, Ch. 10)

'If you watch the wolf too hard,' she muttered, 'a mouse will bite you on the ankle.' Moiraine (TEotW, Ch. 21)

'Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.' Thom Merrilin (TEotW, Ch. 26)

'Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.' Almen Bunt (TEotW, Ch. 34)

'A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.' Rand to Selene (TGH, Ch. 16)

'No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.' Ingtar (TGH, Ch. 46)

'Better ten days of love than years of regretting' Min (TDR, Ch. 3)

'To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornet's nest.' Loial (TDR, Ch. 6)

'When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.' Siuan (TDR, Ch. 13)

'Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels, sometimes.' Siuan (TDR, Ch. 14)

'But when you don't have an oar, child, any plank will do to paddle the boat ashore.' Siuan (TDR, Ch. 14)

'If you want the fun of the jig, you have to pay the harper sooner or later.' Mat (TDR, Ch. 28)

'Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings,' Elayne (TDR, Ch. 48)