For time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
-
-
In the stars is written the death of every man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Yet 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 -
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
All good things must come to an end.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER