Top 22 Aemon Quotes
#1. And Jon had ordered benches and tables brought in. Men with comfortable seats were more inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were more inclined to shout.
George R R Martin
#2. They make things up." "They do," said Maester Aemon, "but even the most fanciful song may hold a kernel of truth. Find that truth
George R R Martin
#3. Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.
George R R Martin
#4. When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.
George R R Martin
#5. Few of the birds that Aemon had sent off had returned as yet. One reached Stannis, though. One found Dragonstone, and a king who still cared.
George R R Martin
#6. Aemon's blind white eyes came open. "Egg?" he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. "Egg, I dreamed that I was old.
George R R Martin
#7. Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryan was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He could not be trusted.
George R R Martin
#9. Stannis knows who Aemon is. If the red woman requires king's blood for her spells ...
George R R Martin
#10. 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. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)
George R R Martin
#11. Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.
George R R Martin
#12. In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#13. What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.
Denise Levertov
#14. And she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.
Ellen Wittlinger
#15. I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.
Lesley Nicol
#16. It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all.
George R R Martin
#17. My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.
Grete Waitz
#18. Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
George R R Martin
#19. When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.
John Cleese
#20. My decency is simply a pose and so is my generosity.
M. T. Panchal
#21. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
George R R Martin
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