80 Tame Quotes

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Famous Tame Quotes

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. — William Shakespeare

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. — Alexis Delp

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning. — King James I

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.] — Ovid

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. - Isadora Duncan

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. — Isadora Duncan

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul. — Saint John Chrysostom

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in. — Alexandra Bracken

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. — John Lennon

Even savage animals can agree among themselves. — Juvenal

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. — Doug Horton

A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential. — Leonard Nimoy

All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash — Hozier

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. — Socrates

Short Tame Quotes

  • Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. — Washington Irving
  • If you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind. — Naval Ravikant
  • Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. — B. C. Forbes
  • I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. — Walt Whitman
  • Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. — Marilu Henner
  • Patience is passion tamed. — Lyman Abbott
  • Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Lions make leopards tame. — William Shakespeare
  • We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. — Nikki Giovanni
  • Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. — William Shakespeare

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Tame quote What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.
What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

Taming Of The Shrew Quotes

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure. — William Shakespeare

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger. — William Shakespeare

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness. — William Shakespeare

Tame quote Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; But great minds rise above it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; But great minds rise above it.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. — William Shakespeare

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? — William Shakespeare

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary. — Diane Cilento

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. — William Shakespeare

For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates. — William Shakespeare

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. — William Shakespeare

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. — William Shakespeare

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More Tame Quotes

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. — Bernard Moitessier

For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders. — Samuel Adams

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity. — Lucretia Mott

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us. — Patrick Pearse

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. — Andrew Denton

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder. — Miuccia Prada

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. — Samuel Adams

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. — Gertrude Jekyll

If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage. — Georges St-Pierre

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw — Candace Bushnell

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable. — Susan Sontag

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things. — Maurice Sendak

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing. — Alberta Hunter

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally. — Sigmar Gabriel

My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame. — Traci Bingham

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. — Elizabeth Hand

I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. — Russell Brand

My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it. — Joan Miro

A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins. — Georg Riedel

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most people are the lion in the cage. Safe, tame, predictable, waiting for something to happen. But for humans, the cage isn’t made of glass and steel bars, it’s made of bad advice and low self-esteem and bullsh*t rules and tortured thinking about what you can’t do or what you’re supposed to do. — Tim Grover

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. — G. K. Chesterton

You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness. — Sylvia Day

Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed. — Isaac Mashman

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. — Marcus Aurelius

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