With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBy 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 CHAUCERHe loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMy house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERDeath is the end of every worldly pain.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn the stars is written the death of every man.
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 CHAUCER