Creative Quotations from . . .
Geoffrey Chaucer
(1340-1400) born on
English poet. "He is best remembered as the author of "The Canterbury Tales," circa 1387."
 
   
F
The gretteste clerkes been noght the wysest men.

R
People can die of mere imagination.
A
Men love . . . newfangledness.
N
"No-wher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was."
K
Time and tide wait for no man.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Canterbury Tales," 'The Reeve's Tale,' 134."
R: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
A: ""The Squire's Tale,'' in 'The Canterbury Tales'"
N: "Referring to the man of law; "The Canterbury Tales," Prologue."
K: "In "The American Library of Quotations,""



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