262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

For profit would I all his lust endure

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the' assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

By nature, men love newfangledness.