The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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