One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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