"Every honest miller has a golden thumb." — Geoffrey Chaucer
"Every honest miller has a golden thumb."
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91 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer has 91 quotes on this site.
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in…
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk...
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be…
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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More Every Honest Quotes
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling…
— Randy Alcorn
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The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They…
— Noah Webster
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time.…
— Charles Kettering
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A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject…
— James Russell Lowell
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If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't -…
— Ayn Rand
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Every honest effort, pays off at the end.
— Terry Mark
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