Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

• There are things to be learned even from the dead.
• It is hard to take orders from a man you laughed at in your cups.
• Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave.
• The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
• A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
• Easy to say, and harder to do.
• Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
• Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
• Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
• I will fight that battle when the enemy appears on the field.
• The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.
• A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
• Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
• Every flight begins with a fall.
• It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
• A man must make his own choices. They earned the silver. How they spend it is no concern of mine.
• There's much to be said for taking people unawares. You never know what you might learn.
• Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
• Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.
• If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him.
• We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.
• A lord needed to eat with his men, if he hoped to keep them.
• The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends.  It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.
• Minds are like swords, I do fear.  The old ones go to rust.
• Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.
• All men carry murder in their hearts.
• Put not your trust in spiders.
• There's no honor in beating a fallen foe.
• The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice.
• Silence sometimes yielded more than questions.
• Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like.
• Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.
• All halls lead somewhere.  Where there is a way in, there is a way out.
• Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.
• When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it.  Waiting won't make the maid any prettier.  Kiss her and be done with it.
• The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
• Some secrets are safer kept hidden.  Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.
• Love is sweet, but it cannot change a man's nature.
• Life is not a song, sweetling.  You may learn that one day to your sorrow.
• Sleep is the great healer.
• A true man does what he will, not what he must.
• Even the truest knight cannot protect a king against himself.
• A bruise is a lesson, and each lesson makes us better.
• Watching is not seeing.
• The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.
• Fear cuts deeper than swords.
• Blood runs truer than oaths.
• Some commands are more easily given than obeyed.
• A man who won't listen can't hear.
• That was the trouble with the clans; they had an absurd notion that every man's voice should be heard in council, so they argued about everything, endlessly.
• All men must swallow the sour with the sweet.
• There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
• As we sin, so do we suffer.  If that's true, why is it always the innocents who suffer most?
• A child sees an obstacle, and his first thought is to run around it or knock it down.  A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
• Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.
• We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love.  That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
• Times may change, but men do not.
• A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear.  And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it.
• A dead man is beyond fear.
• Fear can fever a man's mind and give him queer thoughts.
• A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes.
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