I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBy 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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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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In love there is but little rest.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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