Zitat des Tages von Geoffrey Chaucer:
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
People can die of mere imagination.
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
Love is blind.
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
By nature, men love newfangledness.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.