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You cannot hang everything on one nail.
Persian Proverb
Only your nail scratches your skin.
Lebanese Proverb
If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?
Rwandan Proverb
Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin.
Honduran Proverb
The nail that sticks its head up is the one that gets hit.
Japanese Proverb
If the nail decided to malinger, it would not pierce butter.
African Proverb
If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?
African Proverb
To a man who only has a hammer in his tool kit, every problem looks like a nail.
African Proverb
It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark.
American Proverb
A guest sticks a nail in the wall even if he stays but one night.
Polish Proverb
A guest hammers a nail in the wall even if he stays only one night.
Polish Proverb
He who loves drives a nail into his heart.
Hindi Proverb
He takes out a nail and puts in a pin.
Italian Proverb
Leave no nail unclenched.
Italian Proverb
Work is burning down to his nail.
Hungarian Proverb
Darg-flea tell him pickeny him mustn't say him dead till him ketch pon finger nail.
Jamaican Proverb
No hang you clothes all pon one nail.
Jamaican Proverb
To hit the nail on the head.
Dutch Proverb
One nail drives in another.
Dutch Proverb
For want of a nail the shoe is lost.
Spanish Proverb
It takes a heap of licks to drive a nail in the dark.
African American Proverb
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost.
Traditional Proverb
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