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
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
wise
Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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.
wise wisdom husband
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
men wisest-man wisest
The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
hath inspired march
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The
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.
running lap want
Everybody wants to go to the Super Bowl. Nobody wants to run laps.
english-poet
We little know the things for which we pray.
cloak knife
The smiler with the knife under the cloak
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
Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.