Geoffrey Chaucer Wise Quotations

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Full wise is he that can him selven knowe

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.)

A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.