Circumstances Quote by William Maxwell

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

— Henry David Thoreau

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

— Anonymous

A good nail does not fear being hammered.

— Rita Zahara

“When the hammer strikes a nail, the extreme force of the blow on the broad head is transmitted without loss to the point. The…

— George Oppen

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

— Oliver Reed

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

— Bernard Baruch

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

— Barack Obama

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

— Mark Twain

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

— Mark Twain

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

— Charlie Munger