Best Tame Sayings

225 Tame quotes by 175 unique authors

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… — Patrick Pearse
Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the… — Herman Melville
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. — John Lennon
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… — Andrew Denton
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the… — Plato
It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in… — Dalai Lama
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. — Socrates
A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his… — Joshua Waitzkin
Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be… — Michael Franti
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. — Lydia M. Child
You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of television is rather… — Russell T Davies
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. — Abu Bakar Bashir
She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange… — Michael Ondaatje
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. — Dennis Potter
Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you… — Lisa Marie Presley
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… — Georges St-Pierre
I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are… — Jack Hanna
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain. — Henry David Thoreau
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame… — Mark Twain
A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure. — Ovid
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… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit… — Frances O'Connor
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life. — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something. — Tea Leoni

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