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 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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For 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.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Men love newfangleness.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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