What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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