Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
-
-
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Many small make a great.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
In love there is but little rest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
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