Hammer Quotes

332 Hammer quotes by 261 unique authors

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as… — John Ruskin
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail — Terry Pratchett
Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and… — Richard Cobden
Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer. — Wes Fesler
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before… — Richard Schmid
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but… — Will Rogers
Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every… — Mordecai Ham
The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then… — Renzo Gracie
Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold. — Jimmy Greaves
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert… — George Steiner
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. — James Anthony Froude
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. — Emily Dickinson
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better… — Umberto Eco
I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me. — Chris Hemsworth
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the… — Milan Kundera
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike. — Edwin Markham
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. — Abraham Maslow
When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to… — Robert De Niro

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