Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Certes, they been lyk to houndes, for an hound whan he comth by the roser, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a contenaunce to pisse.
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Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
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They demen gladly to the badder end.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
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Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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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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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!
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The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.
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And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.
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For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.
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This flour of wifly patience.
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So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.
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By nature, men love newfangledness.
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That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.