The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation. Geoffrey Chaucer More Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer More Quotes From Geoffrey Chaucer Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe. Geoffrey Chaucer may men Abstinence is approved of God. Geoffrey Chaucer approved abstinence By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. Geoffrey Chaucer clerks stories men Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote Geoffrey Chaucer march hem book A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold. Geoffrey Chaucer mind-love kind stories And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. Geoffrey Chaucer middle-english canterbury-tales canterbury Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May. Geoffrey Chaucer hard heart may Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be. Geoffrey Chaucer lost may men Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie! Geoffrey Chaucer littles Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk. Geoffrey Chaucer milk cat meat This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro. Geoffrey Chaucer this-world world One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. Geoffrey Chaucer temperament temperance use He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye. Geoffrey Chaucer honour freedom love A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary. Geoffrey Chaucer wisdom wise school One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness. Geoffrey Chaucer grief flesh heart The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. Geoffrey Chaucer cat wisdom wise For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn. Geoffrey Chaucer men book years Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Geoffrey Chaucer space faces patience Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. Geoffrey Chaucer powerful literature age Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was nyght! Geoffrey Chaucer
