Top 21 Tameness Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Tameness

#1. It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

Jonathan Mayhew

#2. Some things are unchangeably wild, others are stolidly tame. The tiger is wild, and the coyote, and the owl. I am tame, you are tame. There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change. But the dog lives in both worlds.

Mary Oliver

#3. We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness

Alice Notley

#4. Fool:
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,
a boy's love, or a whore's oath."
King Lear (III, vi, 19-21)

William Shakespeare

#5. He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

William Shakespeare

#6. It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

George Eliot

#7. Their tameness is shocking to me.

William Cowper

#8. The first and foremost sign of new birth in anyone is that he knows God intuitively, for his spirit has been quickened.

Watchman Nee

#9. You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

Patricia Heaton

#10. For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.

Curtis Stone

#11. To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

Thomas Merton

#12. Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13. History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#14. I went through what I went through because God said go through it

Allen Iverson

#15. The greatest possession is self-possession.

Ethel Watts Mumford

#16. Across her face there seemed to pass many feelings and reflections: it was as if she ached to touch and gather in and make whole those scattered years of change. But how can time be gathered in and kissed? There is only flesh.

John McGahern