If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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In love there is but little rest.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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