More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
Time and tide wait for no man.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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.
Strike while the iron is hot.
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.
