Nail Quotes

 

When you focus so much time, energy, and attention on a giant nail, you tend to collect all sorts of nail-related stuff, including quotes. Here are some of our favorites:

 

"They don't teach Tape Measure, Level, and Hammer The Nail in schools. It shows. They should. " – Unknown

 

"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas." – George Braque

 

"To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." – Mark Twain

 

"The nail that sticks its head up is the one that gets hit." – Japanese Proverb

 

"One nail drives in another." – Dutch Proverb

 

"One nail drives out another." – French, German, and Italian Proverb

 

"Bureaucrats... they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't

nail them to a wall." – Frank Lloyd Wright

 

"A poet can do much more for his country than the proprietor of a nail factory." – Theodore Roosevelt

 

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." – Abraham Maslow

 

"He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins." – William Ellery Channing

 

"The Big Nail is to the Motor City what the Stanley Cup is to the NHL." – Ralph R. Roberts