(205 quotes found)
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Abraham Maslow
“Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is like another nail.”
Dan Castellaneta
“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.”
“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
“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.”
Clive James
