More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
In the stars is written the death of every man.
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.