Tales Quotes
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Polybius (2003). “The Rise of the Roman Empire”, p.25, Penguin UK
Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”
Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company
The Canterbury Tales "The General Prologue" l. 308 (ca. 1387)
Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.181
Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
Harold Pinter (2013). “Moonlight”, p.31, Faber & Faber
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
"Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 Into a Billion Dollar Business". Book by Barbara Corcoran and Bruce Littlefield, February 9, 2011.
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2003). “Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_”, p.223, e-artnow
