David Eddings Short Quotes

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Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

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Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

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Only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

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Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

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Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

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Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

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Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact...

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Someday I'd like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

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As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

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As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.

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Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.

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Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it... —Eriond

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Who owns a man, Durnik? the blond young man asked sadly. The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

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The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

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I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.

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Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' —Garion

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The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.

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Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

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It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

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The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

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I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.

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It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to.

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I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think.

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Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

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As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

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The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.

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Now what? Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. Am I disturbing your Majesty? Prala asked. …You always disturb me, my beloved, he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

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The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

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Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

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