The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Many small make a great.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Men love newfangleness.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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