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Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. -- John Lennon
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. -- Aeschylus
Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires. -- Stephen Richards
I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I'm not going to lose it. -- Ross MacDonald
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. -- William Strunk, Jr.
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. -- Isadora Duncan
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. -- B. C. Forbes
Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. -- Marilu Henner
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. -- Bryan Procter
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. -- Gilbert White
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. -- Henry David Thoreau
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him. -- John Eldredge
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves. -- Jane Leavy
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. -- Robert Kennedy
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. -- Zygmunt Bauman
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. -- William Harvey
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer. -- Spiro T. Agnew
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. -- David Attenborough
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 always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says. -- Jack Hanna
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins. -- Annie Dillard
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 about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home. -- Michael Franti
When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals. -- Jeff Ross
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
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising. -- Meles Zenawi
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots. -- Stacy Schiff
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd. -- Hannah Kent
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. -- Aristotle
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next. -- Diane Ackerman
Lions make leopards tame. -- William Shakespeare
My books are so tame! -- Sarah Dessen
Love can tame the wildest. -- Aesop
Little losses amaze, great tame. -- George Herbert
Everything pays for growing tame. -- Maxine Kumin
Naming nature doesn't tame nature. -- Cameron Conaway
God created woman to tame man. -- Voltaire
...Wild to hold, though I seem tame. -- Thomas Wyatt
A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure. -- Ovid
God created women only to tame men. -- Voltaire
Love hath made thee a tame snake -- William Shakespeare
I just don't believe people can tame animals. -- Kevin Hart
Love is a flame neither timid nor tame. -- Jewel
I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts. -- Frank Stanford
Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame. -- Veronica Rossi
You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. -- George R. R. Martin
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. -- Lydia M. Child
He was a contented dragon, not a tame one. -- Thea Harrison
He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion. -- C. S. Lewis
You put quite a fight for a tame kitty -- Erin Hunter
Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame -- Ann Patchett
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame. -- Jack London
A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press. -- Andrew Vachss
The only things you learn are the things you tame -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. -- Elvis Presley
I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud. -- Bob Dylan
I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels. -- Eden Robinson
Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are. -- Daniel Kahneman
Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things. -- Forrest Carter
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect. -- Susie Orbach
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. -- Iris Murdoch
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly -- Elmer Diktonius
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. -- Mary Deasy
This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me. -- Marianne Curley
Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her. -- Carolyn Elliott
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat. -- Jacqueline Kelly
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. -- John Dryden
Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild -- Mark Twain
There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity -- Mina Loy
The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. -- Kohta Hirano
After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it? -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something. -- Tea Leoni
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. -- Juvenal
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. -- Dennis Potter
The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . . -- Scott Sanders
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. -- Ben Jonson
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. -- James, son of Zebedee
Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch. -- Tug McGraw
In our forestspart divineand makes her heart palpitatewild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound! -- John Cage
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. -- Robert Breault
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own. -- Charles Churchill
I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. -- Maggie Stiefvater
You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame -- William Shakespeare
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. -- George Herbert
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. -- Mark Twain
Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. -- Thomas Wyatt
God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him. -- Edward T Welch
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. -- Robert Reich
If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning. -- King James I
One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything. -- Kevin DeYoung
Sweetie, she-warriors don"t scream. We wow our men with a look, tame them with a smile. -- P. C. Cast
My money's on the lady," he drawled. "You don't tame a vixen, you just travel in her wake. -- Lora Leigh
What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with. -- Robert Breault
Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master. -- Thomas Jefferson
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians. -- John Gay
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame. -- Orson Welles
It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles. -- Lev L. Spiro
It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. -- John Climacus
It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince -- Melanie Rawn
Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world. -- Judith Kelman
Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories. -- Ron Fournier
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. -- John Milton
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle. -- Elvis Presley
Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame. -- Waylon Jennings
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if thereÂ´s a saucer of milk in it for them. -- Douglas Adams
Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder. -- Miuccia Prada
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season. -- Arthur Lismer
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse. -- Georges Bizet
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. -- Socrates
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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame -- Aimee Mann
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. -- Ruth Ozeki
The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him. -- Max Stirner
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly. -- Flora Thompson

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