The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBy God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERCertain, 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLook up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER