Many a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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