Best Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer (Top 10)
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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No empty handed man can lure a bird
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
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Many small make a great.
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Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
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But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Love is blynde.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Mordre wol out, that se we day by day.
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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