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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8c3b36c | a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 79b8e50 | I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned, | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 675a397 | My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 3d7f7ff | m`Zm bn jldtk hm 'khbth sll@ mn lHshrt lmw'dhy@ lbGyD@ lty smHt lh lTby`@ blzHf `l~ wjkh l'rD | حقيقة جوناثان سويفت | Jonathan Swift | |
| 1c8741e | Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that .. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 99eba24 | asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. " | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 831990d | His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise. | Richard Bach | ||
| 94dc708 | John Myers wrote, "It is Imagination, man's power to imagine, that makes living in society, any society, possible. It think what Paul Goodman says about doing away with 'intolerable biological deprivation and spiritual impoverishment' through what he calls 'creative cooperative production' is the right and humane solution to our social woes." | Mary Gabriel | ||
| 581c288 | But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34? | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 1e3eb05 | Know thyself first immortal and loke ay besyly thow werche and wysse To commune profit, and thow shatl not mysse To comen swiftly to that place deere That ful of blysse is and of soules cleere | F. N. Robinson - Editor | ||
| 51d7957 | Upon his arm he bare a gay bracer*, *small shield And by his side a sword and a buckler, And on that other side a gay daggere, Harnessed well, and sharp as point of spear: | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 48a2e95 | And as for me, though that I konne but lyte, On bokes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yive I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But yt be seldom on the holyday, Save, certeynly, whan that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules synge, And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge, Farewel my bok and my devocioun! | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 19f2750 | Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| c881e66 | Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf, And nevere yow displese in al my lyf, Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair, And take youre aventure of the repair That shal be to youre hous by cause of me, Or in som oother place, may wel be. Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh." | chaucer choice feminity marriage wife wife-of-bath women | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 98c2d53 | have you killed me, false thief? | brute canterbury fight fighting marriage | Chaucer Geoffrey | |
| 135c1f3 | Geoffrey Chaucer's tender-hearted prioress, Madame Eglantyne, who was said to weep at the sight of a mouse caught in a trap, would nevertheless have had a gallows on her property, upon which, at the hands of her bailiff, she would have hanged thieves. | Catharine Arnold | ||
| 24b9f14 | Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye, Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye, So sende myght to make in som comedye! But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie, But subgit be to alle poesye; And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| a3ce53a | Yow loveres axe I now this questioun, Who hath the worse, Arcite or Palamoun? 490 That oon may seen his lady day by day, But in prison he moot dwelle alway. That other wher him list may ryde or go, But seen his lady shal he never-mo. Now demeth as yow liste, ye that can, 495 For I wol telle forth as I bigan. Explicit prima Pars. Sequitur pars secunda. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 44933b0 |
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| 9e04bca | He hath considered shortly, in a clause The 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 man Wol helpe himself in love if that he kan, And eek delivere himself out of prisoun; | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 19ee8df | Alas the day that gave me birth! Worse then my prison is the endless earth, | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| e0f3f7a | segun Seneca, "el airado y enojado no puede hablar de algo sin vituperarlo"." | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| f5c2f71 | For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| daa4731 | nadie debe echar sobre sus espaldas fardo que no pueda llevar. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| fd8b6a4 | Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| d328626 | you will not be master of my body & my property | cheek feminism marriage property | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| bd20ed7 | De que sirve tener posesiones si un hombre carece de conocimientos? | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| a866138 | you are the cause by which I die | cause death means reason | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 0afe897 | This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 46efc69 | A faithful servant is more diligent in keeping your goods safe than is your own wife, because she will claim a half part of your worth all her life. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 91716a5 | Lo que comenzo mal, rara vez y con muchisima dificultad concluira bien"." | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 3e390aa | El hombre favorecido por la Fortuna se convierte en un imbecil integral. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 261ebe7 | El leon esta siempre al acecho para matar al inocente si puede.>> | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 05b6e94 | By Pluto sent at the request of Saturn. Arcita's horse in terror danced a pattern And leapt aside and foundered as he leapt, And ere he was aware Arcite was swept Out of the saddle and pitched upon his head Onto the ground, and there he lay for dead; His breast was shattered by the saddle-bow. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 346f3c9 | 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 thoroughfare of woe, And we are pilgrims passing to and fro;" | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 48d1566 | There in the sun; and Chanticleer so free Sang merrier than a mermaid in the sea (For Physiologus says certainly That they do sing, both well and merrily). | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 3e9add3 | Alas the day that gave me birth! Worse than my prison is the endless earth, now I am doomed eternally to dwell, not in purgatory, but in hell | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 574e1fc | If you are poor your very brother hates you And all your friends avoid you, sad to say. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 71eed93 | Shepherds too soft who let their duty sleep, Encourage wolves to tear the lambs and sleep. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| f473d02 | Perhaps I might put up my notice of warning, and warn the reader not to read the second chapter. Now I come to think of it, I might warn him not to read the book at all. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| df6c426 | One night the citizens of Rome revolted Against his tyrannies and mad ambition And, when he heard them mutiny, he bolted Alone and sought his friends for coalition. The more he knocked and begged them for admission The more they shut their doors and said him nay. And then he saw that of his own perdition He was sole author and he fled away. The people yelled for him and rumbled round So that their shouts were dinning in his ear: 'Where's Ne.. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 374e7cf | Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte, And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do? For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste; And shame it is, if a prest take keep, A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 0a1216f | He was an easy man to mete out Penance when a good gift he expected to receive. Forsooth, to donate generously unto a poor Order is a sign that a man is well shriven. For if a man gave, the Friar dared to assert, he knew that the man was repentant. So hard is the heart of many a man that he cannot weep, though he may sorely suffer for his sins. Therefore, in the stead of weeping and praying, men must give silver to the poor Friars. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 99861b7 | But we'll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old | fun novelty | Geoffrey Chaucer |