Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
More Quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer:
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.Geoffrey Chaucer
Til crowes feet be growe under your ye.
Geoffrey Chaucer
By God, if women had but written stories, As have these clerks within their oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the race of Adam could redress.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The first virtue, son, if thou wilt learn, Is to restrain and keep well thy tongue.
Geoffrey Chaucer
But al thyng which shineth as the gold Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told
Geoffrey Chaucer
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Age QuotesBased on Keywords: chastity, filth, wardens
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
Gustave Flaubert
I feel honesty always works.
Bobby Unser
I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
Patricia Heaton