Who shall give a lover any law?’ Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.
The time always flees; it will wait for no man. And through you are still in the flower of your young manhood, age creeps on steadily, as quiet as a stone, and death meanaces every age and strikes in...
He hath considered shortly, in a clauseThe trespas of hem bothe, and eek the cause,And althogh that his ire hir gilt accused,Yet in his resoun he hem bothe excused,As thus: he thoghte wel that every m...
For thus men seyth, That on thenketh the beere,But al another thenketh his ledere.
But for to telle yow al hir beautee,It lyth nat in my tonge, n'yn my konnyng;I dar nat undertake so heigh a thyng.Myn Englissh eek is insufficient.It moste been a rethor excellentThat koude his colour...
But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34?
Whan that Aprill with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in switch licourOf which vertu engendred is the flour;Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete bree...
If you are poor your very brother hates you And all your friends avoid you, sad to say.
Her statue, glorious in majesty,Stood naked, floating on a vasty sea,And from the navel down there were a massOf green and glittering waves as bright as glass.In her right hand a cithern carried sheAn...
He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.
The harm that’s in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.
So astute was he in his buying and selling, and in his borrowings, that no one knew if he was in debt.
Just as there never died a man, quoth he, But he had lived on earth in some degree, Just so there never lived a man, he said, In all this world, but must be sometime dead. This world is but a thorough...
But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,He taught and first he followed it himself.
A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher noon is. He wayted after no pompe and reverence, 525 Ne maked him a spyced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, and first he folwed...
Nadie que esté bajo la influencia de la bebida sabe guardar un secreto: esto es indiscutible.
In general, my liege lady,’ he began, ‘Women desire to have dominion Over their husbands, and their lovers too; They want to have mastery over them. That’s what you most desire—even if my life Is forf...
He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he remembers it,However rudely spoken or unfit,Or else the tale he tells will be untrue,The things invente...
Fortune has dealt us this adversity:Some malign aspect or dispositionOf Saturn in some adverse positionHas brought it on us; nothing's to be done:It stood thus in our stars when we were born;The long...
Jesús de Sirach afirma: «Quien tiene el corazón alegre y contento se conserva vigoroso a través de los años, pero un corazón entristecido reseca los huesos».