Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Husband

  "The Canterbury tales: translated into modern English prose".

• 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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, School

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wisdom, People, Ministry

• The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Cat

• Strike while the iron is hot.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Iron Will

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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