What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor time lost may not recovered be.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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