262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

To keep demands as much skill as to win.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.