More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
In the stars is written the death of every man.
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.
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.
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
Strike while the iron is hot.
