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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury
Good Woman
Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
All good things must come to an end.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Sad
GoodNight
GoodNight
Geoffrey Chaucer
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Hounds
Geoffrey Chaucer
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Devil
Damnation
Way
Geoffrey Chaucer
Many a true word is spoken in jest
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Jest
True Words
Geoffrey Chaucer
Time and tide wait for no man.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Inspirational
Birthday
Time
Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Art
Mean
Sleep
Geoffrey Chaucer
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Inspirational
Truth
Men
Geoffrey Chaucer
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Wisdom
People
Ministry
Geoffrey Chaucer
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Thinking
Guilt
Shame
Geoffrey Chaucer
Strike while the iron is hot.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Wise
Wisdom
Iron Will
Geoffrey Chaucer
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Littles
Busy
Found
Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Love
Farewell
Men
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.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Wise
Wisdom
Husband
Geoffrey Chaucer
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Inspirational
Time
Long
Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Poverty
Rich
Shirts
Geoffrey Chaucer
Patience is a conquering virtue.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Conquer
Virtue
Geoffrey Chaucer
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Desire
Geoffrey Chaucer
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Rose
Royalty
Geoffrey Chaucer
In the stars is written the death of every man.
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Death
Stars
Men
Geoffrey Chaucer