The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
Geoffrey ChaucerTags: love
Amor vincit omnia
Geoffrey ChaucerTags: latin
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Geoffrey ChaucerForbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire
Geoffrey ChaucerAnd once he had got really drunk on wine,
Then he would speak no language but Latin.
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess,
Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.
For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well
Is written down some useful truth to tell.
Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
Tags: wisdom open-mind learning-the-truth
Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite;
Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage;
But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.
Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.
Geoffrey ChaucerTags: art-life-judgement
By God, if women had written stories,
As clerks had within here oratories,
They would have written of men more wickedness
Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
Tags: books gender men women evil storytelling inequality dishonesty wickedness
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