“By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.”

“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 repairThat shal be to youre hous by cause of me,Or in som oother place, may wel be.Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.”

“By nature, men love newfangledness.”

“People can die of mere imagination.”

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

“The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.”

“Love is blind.”

“First he wrought and afterwards he taught.”

“No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.”

“But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.”

“Make a virtue of necessity.”