English - Poet | 1343 - October 25, 1400
Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer
TimeManWaitTide
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
IntelligencePeopleGreatestScholars
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
DesireSomethingUsThingForbid
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
LifeShortLearnLongCrafts
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
WomenWifeWiseBraveRichDesire
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
RoseSheFairMay
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
FirstHeTaughtWrought
People can die of mere imagination.
ImaginationPeopleDieMere
Love is blind.
LoveLove IsBlind
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
ThinkGuiltyTalkThemselves
By nature, men love newfangledness.
NatureLoveMen
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
AgeOld AgeYouPowerfulWillOld
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