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.
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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Women 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.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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