What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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