More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
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.
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 lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
In the stars is written the death of every man.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Strike while the iron is hot.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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.
