More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
All good things must come to an end.
Strike while the iron is hot.
In the stars is written the death of every man.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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.