That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

All good things must come to an end.

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Many small make a great.

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.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.

For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.