More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
Strike while the iron is hot.
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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Many a true word is spoken in jest
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
Time and tide wait for no man.
All good things must come to an end.
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
