“Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.”
Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) cartoonist
As quoted in The Book of Unusual Quotations (1957) by Rudolf Franz Flesch, p. 8.
“I have hurled westward the ashes of the uninvited guest!
and hammered stars into the unforgetting sky – like nails
I am Goya.”
"I am Goya"; translated by Stanley Kunitz, p. 3.
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Soviet poet 1933–2010Related quotes
“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist
The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (1966), Ch. 2, p. 15; although some similar statements to describe fundamental errors in human perception have been attributed to others, his expression, or slight paraphrases of it, is one of the earliest yet found to be documented in published writings, and remains among the most popular.
1940s-1960s
“When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.”
Robert Kagan book Of Paradise and Power
Alternate version: If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.
Of Paradise and Power, p. 26
According to Kagan, this is a variation of the proverb "When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails." (p. 25 of the same book)
“I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.”
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Immortal Beloved
“It is better to be the hammer than the nail.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1991)