Men Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

Gold

Iron

Men

Geoffrey Chaucer

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

Deeds

Men

Geoffrey Chaucer

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.

Clerks

Men

Stories

Geoffrey Chaucer

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Invention

Men

Geoffrey Chaucer

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man’s wit and his discretion.

Drunkenness

Men

Wit

Geoffrey Chaucer

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th’entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

Men

Space

Writing

Geoffrey Chaucer

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

Ifs

Men

Possession

Geoffrey Chaucer

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

Fortune

Men

Worst

Geoffrey Chaucer

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.

Book

Men

Years

Geoffrey Chaucer

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

Fey

Men

Science

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Abstinence

Adversity

Age

Air

Ale

All Things

Als

Appearance

Approved

Art

Aspens

Be Good

Believe

Best Person

Bird

Birthday

Blessed

Blood

Body

Book

Breathe

Brother

Busier

Busy

Canterbury

Canterbury Tales

Cat

Cheese

Chess

Clerks

Cold

Complaining

Conclusion

Conquer

Cooking

Crafts

Daisies

Damnation

Dear

Death

Deeds

Demand

Desert

Desire

Devil

Dice

Diligence

Drunkenness

Ears

Empty

Ends

Eye

Faces

Fame

Fancy

Farewell

Fashion

Fate

Feet

Fey

Fields

Fighting

Fire

Firsts

Flesh

Flour

Flow

Flower

Folly

Food

Foolish

Fortune

Foul

Found

Freedom

Games

Gay

Gentle

Gold

Golden

Gone Love

Good Night

Good Woman

Goodness

Goodnight

Grate

Grief

Guilt

Hands

Handsome

Hard

Heard

Hearing

Heart

Heaven

Hem

Herds

Holes

Honour

Hounds

Humility

Husband

Ifs

Imagination

Inspirational

Invention

Iron

Iron Will

Jest

Jolly

Journey

Joy

Justice

Kind

Kindness

Knights

Lasts

Legs

Literature

Littles

Long

Long Ago

Look Up

Looks

Lord

Losing

Lost

Loud

Love

Love Is

Lovers

Lying

Manly

March

Marriage

May

Mean

Meat

Men

Mercy

Middle English

Might

Milk

Mind Love

Ministry

Missing

Misty

Monk

Moon

Murder

Nature

Nine

Noon

Pain

Patience

People

Pieces

Politics

Possession

Poverty

Powerful

Prayer

Praying

Progress

Quake

Queens

Rain

Reeds

Rich

Rome

Rose

Royalty

Rust

Sad

Said

Sake

School

Science

Secret

Shame

Shirts

Sin

Skills

Sleep

Sorry

Soul

Space

Spiritual

Spring

Spurs

Stars

Stories

Sweet

Talent

Taught

Teach

Teaching

Temperament

Temperance

Thankfulness

Thinking

This World

Thumbs

Time

True Words

Truth

Twelve

Twenties

Two

Use

Venus

Vicars

Virtue

Walls Have Ears

Want

War

Way

Welcome

Wells

White

Whole

Wife

Winning

Wisdom

Wise

Wisest

Wisest Man

Wit

Woe

Wonder

Woods

Work

World

Worst

Wrens

Writing

Years

Young

Youth

Men Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

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.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man’s wit and his discretion.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th’entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

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.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

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