And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAll good things must come to an end.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
-
-
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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 -
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 -
There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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 -
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER