Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

First he wrought and afterwards he taught.

No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.

But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.

Make a virtue of necessity.

And after winter folweth grene May.

doctors & druggists wash each other's hands

I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.

you are the cause by which I die