With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLove 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
-
-
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
In the stars is written the death of every man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
A love grown old is not the love once new.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Many small make a great.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER