If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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All good things must come to an end.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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