262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Time and tide wait for no man.

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

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

With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.

Abstinence is approved of God.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.