Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWomen 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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