Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf were not foolish young, were foolish old.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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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 flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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