Time and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWomen 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 CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn love there is but little rest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERDeath is the end of every worldly pain.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERForbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERYet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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