One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
Strike while the iron is hot.
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th’entente is al, and nat the lettres space.
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
A love grown old is not the love once new.
In love there is but little rest.
My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
Everybody wants to go to the Super Bowl. Nobody wants to run laps.
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.