Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
Love is blind.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
People can die of mere imagination.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The bisy larke, messager of day.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
Time and tide wait for no man.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
We know little of the things for which we pray.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.