In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care.
When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence.
You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
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.
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
The word that came to me now was "defiant. " Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
Don't force it. . . get a bigger hammer.
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.