262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

But we'll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old

Lost money is not lost beyond recall, But loss of time brings on the loss of all.

people have managed to marry without arithmetic

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

we know little of the things for which we pray

Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,And take youre aventure of the repairThat shal be to youre hous by cause of me,Or in som oother place, may wel be.Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.

By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

Then the Miller fell off his horse.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.