Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Time and tide wait for no man.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Love is blind.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

People can die of mere imagination.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.