Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
Among his many works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales.
Patience is a conquering virtue.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Love is blind.
Many small make a great.
Make a virtue of necessity.
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord.
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
People can die of mere imagination.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
All good things must come to an end.
Everybody wants to go to the Super Bowl. Nobody wants to run laps.
There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
