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
bee men thee
Seeke out ye goode in everie man, and speke of alle the beste ye can; then wil alle men speke wel of thee and say how kynde of hearte ye bee
winning men years
Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
writing men space
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.
men fortune worst
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.
men bird empty
No empty handed man can lure a bird
lying men missing
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
men hands may
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
men feet space
My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
men wit discretion
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
blessed believe men
Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
men deeds
And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
men possession ifs
Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
men invention
By nature, men love newfangledness.
men progress
Men love newfangleness.