Wot Quotes:

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!

- T. E. Brown

source: "My Garden" l. 1 (1893)

topic: Beauty, Garden, Wot

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Faces, Wheel Of Time, Wot

Never gamble without knowing a back way out.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time”, p.503, Hachette UK

topic: Knowing, Way, Wot

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.361, Tor Books

topic: Age, Old Saying, Wot

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.420, Macmillan

topic: Buckets, Bottom, Wot

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Time, Son, Wanted, Wheel Of Time, Wot

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.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.15, Macmillan

topic: Memories, Long, Leaving, Wheel Of Time, Wot

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

- George Meredith

topic: Passion, Plot, Needs, Wot, Tragic Life

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Women, Eye, Mind, Wheel Of Time, Wot

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.420, Macmillan

topic: Hands, Tree, Fool, Wot

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

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.368, Macmillan

topic: Lying, Taken, Ridiculous, Wot

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.403, Macmillan

topic: Thinking, Alive, Want, Wot

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.271, Macmillan

topic: Trouble, Wot

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

- Robert Jordan

source: "The Eye of the World". Book by Robert Jordan, 1990.

topic: Love, Hate, Men, Wheel Of Time, Wot

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.384, Macmillan

topic: Time, Sleep, Watches, Wot, Time To Sleep

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.

- Robert Jordan

source: "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

topic: Men, Wheel Of Time, Reason, Wot

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Regret, Years, Wot

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

source: Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.577, Macmillan

topic: Smile, Giving, Coins, Gallows, Wheel Of Time

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

- Robert Jordan

topic: Book, Long, Enough, Wheel Of Time, Wot

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.250, Macmillan

topic: Facts, Wheel Of Time, Proof, Wot

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.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.88, Macmillan

topic: Eye, Water, Shadow, Wheel Of Time, Wot

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Honey, Combs, Wot

Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

- Robert Jordan

source: "The Fires of Heaven". Book by Robert Jordan, 1993.

topic: Girl, Brother, Kissing, Wheel Of Time, Wot

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.132, Macmillan

topic: Men, Feet, Faces, Real Men, Wheel Of Time

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

- Robert Jordan

topic: War, Boys, Fool, Wheel Of Time, Wot

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.494, Macmillan

topic: Meals, Tonight, May, Wot

Better to face the bear than run from it.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Running, Bears, Faces, Wot

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Dragons, Lord, Swear, Wheel Of Time, Wot

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Cat, Men, Waiting, Wot

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.419, Macmillan

topic: Water, Rose, Ponds, Petals, Wot

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2005). “New Spring: The Novel”, p.298, Macmillan

topic: Swimming, Men, Sea, Wheel Of Time, Wot

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.549, Macmillan

topic: Forgiveness, Women, Thinking, Never Forgive, Wheel Of Time

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Saplings, Branches, Blades, Wot

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

- Robert Jordan

topic: Jobs, Men, Advice, Wheel Of Time, Wot

I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Thinking, Want, Window, Wot

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.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.383, Macmillan

topic: Believe, Simple, Men, Simple Truths, Wot

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

- Robert Jordan

source: Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.232, Macmillan

topic: Pigs, Play, Flutes, Wot

Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Wise, Queens, Path, Wot

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.

- Christian Rudder

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Use, Messages, Speak, Wot

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Writing, Dementia, Live Well, Wot, Best Sellers

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

- Robert Jordan

topic: War, Mean, Army, Wot

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."

- Nicholas Breton

topic: Life, Men, Old Love, Wot

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.

- Twiggy

topic: Girl, Fun, Pancakes, Wot

"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."

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.296, Penguin

topic: Funny, Humorous, Heart, Flopping, Wot

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

- Brian Jacques

topic: Call Of Duty, Above And Beyond, Holes, Wot

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.

- O. Henry

topic: Eye, Men, Widows, Wot

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

- Robert Jordan

topic: Hunting, Trying, Lions, Wheel Of Time, Wot