And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite, And take it weel, that we ma...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER His studie was but litel on the Bible.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pr...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day The emperice, and flou...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray She sang ful loude and cleere.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done a...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Frieth in his own grease.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The guilty think all talk is of themselves
GEOFFREY CHAUCER First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Many a smale maketh a grate.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Of harmes two the less is for to chose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Patience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER There's never a new fashion but it's old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Time and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.
For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well
GEOFFREY CHAUCER He was as fresh as is the month of May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this, A man to hav bent in...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER We little know the things for which we pray
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The life so short, the crafts so long to learn
GEOFFREY CHAUCER There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Murder will out, this my conclusion
GEOFFREY CHAUCER doctors & druggists wash each other's hands
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Love is blind.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean
GEOFFREY CHAUCER She loved right from the first sight
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Love is blynde.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me To speke of wo tha...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere; And out of ol...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER He koude songes make and well endite.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity
GEOFFREY CHAUCER people have managed to marry without arithmetic
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the' assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The smiler with the knife under the cloak
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Forbid us something, and that thing we desire
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ... murder wol out
GEOFFREY CHAUCER have you killed me, false thief?
CHAUCER GEOFFREY Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER That if gold rust, what shall iron do?/ For if a priest be foul, in whom we trust,/ No wonder is a l...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By nature, men love newfangledness
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
CHAUCER We know little of the things for which we pray.
CHAUCER People can die of mere imagination.
CHAUCER Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
CHAUCER The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
CHAUCER Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see...
CHAUCER First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
CHAUCER Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).
CHAUCER There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.
CHAUCER Time and tide wait for no man.
CHAUCER The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
CHAUCER Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
CHAUCER Love is blind.
CHAUCER I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but...
GEOFFREY RUSH People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Bal...
GEOFFREY RUSH I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before...
GEOFFREY RUSH I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
GEOFFREY RUSH What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - c...
GEOFFREY RUSH People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personal...
GEOFFREY RUSH When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my ...
GEOFFREY RUSH Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lan...
GEOFFREY RUSH There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who re...
GEOFFREY RUSH This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children,...
GEOFFREY RUSH My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not da...
GEOFFREY RUSH Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four...
GEOFFREY RUSH I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in explori...
GEOFFREY RUSH But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice ...
GEOFFREY RUSH I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard...
GEOFFREY RUSH You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a...
GEOFFREY RUSH I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
GEOFFREY RUSH My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.
GEOFFREY RUSH I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific,...
GEOFFREY RUSH Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think t...
GEOFFREY RUSH Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forti...
GEOFFREY RUSH I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel mo...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
GEOFFREY RUSH When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to ...
GEOFFREY CANADA Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...]<...
GEOFFREY WOLFF Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
GEOFFREY LATHAM In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England ...
GEOFFREY COTTRELL I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make ...
GEOFFREY BEENE The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yo...
GEOFFREY GABERINO If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
GEOFFREY HICKSON Simple is better.
GEOFFREY MOMPREMIER Good food ends with good talk.
GEOFFREY NEIGHOR An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded educat...
GEOFFREY CANADA Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
GEOFFREY CANADA In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent househ...
GEOFFREY CANADA Design is an unknown.
GEOFFREY BEENE Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development ...
GEOFFREY CANADA In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be ...
GEOFFREY FISHER I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a se...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying ...
GEOFFREY CANADA Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.
GEOFFREY WEST I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic acto...
GEOFFREY RUSH I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden d...
GEOFFREY RUSH I've never missed a flight. And I don't see any reason in cutting it close because airports ...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second m...
GEOFFREY RUSH Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf...
GEOFFREY RUSH There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-...
GEOFFREY FISHER When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or loo...
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT Cities are the crucible of civilization.
GEOFFREY WEST I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, w...
GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating mur...
GEOFFREY FISHER Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a...
GEOFFREY CANADA I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to d...
GEOFFREY BEENE Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our ...
GEOFFREY NEIGHOR We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innova...
GEOFFREY WEST His condition was that his bone marrow had not produced platelets and red cells. It did produce some...
GEOFFREY BRAUNSBERG One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and e...
GEOFFREY WEST It seems to me the vultures have stopped circling.
GEOFFREY BECKER I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to co...
GEOFFREY CANADA When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm out...
GEOFFREY CANADA He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON I use the confit principle for chicken thighs. I season them with herbs and garlic, let them marinat...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
GEOFFREY RUSH I think the U.S. was so insular in the 1990s, and I don't know if it was 9/11, but there was somethi...
GEOFFREY GILMORE We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to...
GEOFFREY HOLDER It started with an apron, and then the bib. And it was like a piece of clothing that protected what ...
GEOFFREY BEENE What turns an honest, good-looking guy like you into a theif?"
Scott couldn't help but smirk. ...
GEOFFREY KNIGHT They have already decided to get beyond where they left off and move on to the substantive component...
GEOFFREY KEMP Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important...
GEOFFREY CANADA How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it’s more about the state of your body.
GEOFFREY PARFITT If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach t...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Ev...
GEOFFREY CANADA I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glas...
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbe...
GEOFFREY CANADA They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t...
GEOFFREY WOOD Wall Street is sliding and Mexico is taking it on the chin as usual.
GEOFFREY DENNIS With the biggest dissident shareholders in favor of the new deal, we expect the transaction to be co...
GEOFFREY PORGES [Accessories are often incorporated into the clothing, rather than using much jewelry.] I have some ...
GEOFFREY BEENE Some of my favorite things are the white jackets with the black zippers, that just zip and that's it...
GEOFFREY BEENE Some of my favorite things are the white jackets with the black zippers, that just zip and that's it...
GEOFFREY BEENE Robert was nothing less than mocked.
GEOFFREY FIEGER One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from...
GEOFFREY CANADA Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything ...
GEOFFREY WEST These orbs are the destinations of the real Star Trek. And they can be explored with excellent camer...
GEOFFREY MARCY How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactl...
GEOFFREY CANADA She's a tough campaigner. But the real problem for her is getting out from underneath all these ques...
GEOFFREY BECKER [Initial information gathered from local residents indicates the soldiers] may have been involved in...
GEOFFREY HOON It's important that we make an effort to bridge this gap.
GEOFFREY HOON We know roughly where these people are. ... At the moment I would say there is a chance they can be ...
GEOFFREY HOON I know there have been media reports that bombs and missiles have fallen near civilian areas. Detona...
GEOFFREY HOON The targets included terrorist training camps, military airfields and air defense sites,
GEOFFREY HOON The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer ...
GEOFFREY CANADA The '80s and '90s residential building spree ... has done a real disservice to the once charming nei...
GEOFFREY LEWIS Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
GEOFFREY WEST Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. ...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN I run into trees all the time when I go sledding
GEOFFREY ROGERS