More Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
