William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
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Taming
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"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."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy"
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty."
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"Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?"
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"Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate."
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"Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal."
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"The poorest service is repaid with thanks."
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"Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause."
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"I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist."
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"What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman."
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"He kills her in her own humor."
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"She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me."
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"Tis the mind that makes the body rich."
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