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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

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 user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

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

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.