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Nail Proverbs - page 2
The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hammered down.
African Proverb
Ye ca' hardest at the nail that drives fastest.
English Proverb
The nail that sticks out gets pounded.
English Proverb
One nail drives out another.
English Proverb
The nail supports the hoof, the hoof the horse, the horse the man, the man the world.
Arabic Proverb
Drive the nail that will go.
Danish Proverb
A nail secures the horse-shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land.
German Proverb
He who would make a golden door must add a nail to it daily.
German Proverb
One man knocks in the nail, and another hangs his hat on it.
German Proverb
There is no nail varnish that can make old hands look younger.
German Proverb
He who buys a house gets many a plank and nail for nothing.
German Proverb
A new sieve is on a nail, then it gets under the bed.
Hungarian Proverb
The nail sticks out of the sack.
Hungarian Proverb
It hit a nail into his head.
Hungarian Proverb
Nail by, with nail.
Hungarian Proverb
He hits the nail on the head.
Hungarian Proverb
For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Romanian Proverb
One nail drives out another.
French Proverb
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
French Proverb
A hammer breaks glass, but also forms steel. Everything cannot be hung on one nail.
Russian Proverb
The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail.
Spanish Proverb
One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.
Spanish Proverb
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