Canterbury Tales famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

  • The word baptism means derailment. Christ baptizes Peter on the rock when he tells him: "Because you confessed your love for me, your life is no longer your own. Before you said this, you fastened your belt and you walked wherever you liked. Now, others will put a belt around you and take you where you would rather not go." To submit to love is to be baptized, that is, to let one's life be forever interrupted. To not let one's life be interrupted is to say no to love

  • I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

  • I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

  • The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

  • Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

  • Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

  • That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.

  • Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.

  • I like to sing with people, whether they're good or not.