“Of course, it’s a bit of a jump, isn’t it? I mean, er… chartered accountancy to lion taming in one go… You don’t think it might be better if you worked your way towards lion taming, say via banking?”
Monty Python
“The man for whom the law exists -- the man of forms, the conservative -- is a tame man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can climb a mountain or jump out of a plane but can never tame a hurricane or tornado - that's for sure. It's one of the last frontiers that no one will ever conquer.”
Roger Hill
“Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
William Shakespeare
“He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.”
“A wild goose never reared a tame gosling.”
Irish Proverb
“Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.”
Patricia Moyes