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
wisdom iron-will empty-vessels
Strike while the iron is hot.
wise wisdom school
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.
wisdom cat feet
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
wisdom people ministry
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
wise wisdom husband
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
cloak knife
The smiler with the knife under the cloak
english-poet
We little know the things for which we pray.
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
wise
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.)
full wise
Full wise is he that can him selven knowe
al gold herd
But al thyng which shineth as the gold Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told
Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
english-poet fresh month
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
crafts life
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.