More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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.
All good things must come to an end.
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Strike while the iron is hot.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Patience is a conquering virtue.
