(202 quotes found)
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Abraham Maslow
“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.”
William Shakespeare
“The nail that sticks up gets hammered down”
Japanese Proverb
“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, treat everything as if it were a nail.”
“Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is like another nail.”
Dan Castellaneta
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider was lost, Forwant of a rider the battle was lost, For want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost”
“People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.”
Walter Savage Landor
“It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark”
African-American Proverb
“And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; / Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.”
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