Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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