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 CHAUCEROne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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