"The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer."

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Source : Caxton's edition (c.1478) of Chaucer's translation of Boethius 'De Consolacione Philosophie' epilogue

William Caxton

#Father Quotes #Mean Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”
“The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?”
“Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.”
“If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.”
“With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.”
“The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.”
“If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.”

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