The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

By nature, men love newfangledness.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

We know little of the things for which we pray.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Time and tide wait for no man.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Love is blind.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

People can die of mere imagination.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

- Geoffrey Chaucer