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Hammers Quotes by John Ruskin
- Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
- You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as…
- [For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into…
- 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…
More Hammers Quotes
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. — Bernard Baruch
- I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars. — Adam Carolla
- In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked… — Adam Carolla
- You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to… — Mahatma Gandhi
- A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
- Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. — Abraham Kaplan
- I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this. — Drake
- An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
- Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly. — John Ray