1340-1400, British Poet
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
Geoffrey Chaucer – [Habit]
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer – [Teachers and Teaching]
Love is blind.
Geoffrey Chaucer – [Love]
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer – [Work]
People can die of mere imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer – [Imagination]
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer – [Wisdom]
Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer – [Time and Time Management]
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Geoffrey Chaucer – [Prayer]