Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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One 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.
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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.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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All good things must come to an end.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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