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Geoffrey Chaucer
English
Poet
About the author
Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Time
#Man
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Man
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#May
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Will
#Old
#Age
#Chastity
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Life
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Want
#Wife
#Desire
#Women
#Husbands
#Bed
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Will
#Soul
#Body
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#May
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#First
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Will
#Murder
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Desire
People can die of mere imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#People
#Imagination
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Work
#May
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Old
#Fashion
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#People
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Talk
Love is blind.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Love
#Blind
By nature, men love newfangledness.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
English
Poet
#Love
#Men
#Nature