Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
-
-
People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Men love newfangleness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
In the stars is written the death of every man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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 -
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER