Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
wisdom people ministry
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
wise wisdom husband
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
littles
In love there is but little rest.
justice mercy
Mercy surpasses justice.
inspirational time dancing
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
thinking guilt shame
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
world ifs manly
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
men wisest-man wisest
The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
littles busy found
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
flower rose may
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
art mean sleep
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.
brother politics dear
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
good-woman canterbury-tales canterbury
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
endure literature lust profit
For profit would I all his lust endure