More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
Time and tide wait for no man.
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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.
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.
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
