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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Men love newfangleness.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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