In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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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.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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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.
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