What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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By 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.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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