Hit the nail on the head. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Great marks are soonest hit. [ Proverb ]

Blots are no blots till hit. [ Proverb ]

A great mark is soonest hit. [ Proverb ]

Not a single shaft can hit
Till the God of love sees fit. [ Ryland ]

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star. [ P. T. Barnum ]

Fool's bolts may sometimes hit the mark. [ Proverb ]

You can't think and hit at the same time. [ Yogi Berra ]

A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark. [ Proverb ]

Dogs that hunt foulest hit off most faults. [ Proverb ]

If love be blind, love can not hit the mark. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc.1 ]

How can a you hit and think at the same time? [ Yogi Berra ]

He that is always shooting must sometimes hit. [ Proverb ]

For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit,
Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. [ Butler ]

It is easier to miss, than to hit a needle's eye. [ Proverb ]

So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face. [ Yogi Berra ]

Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there
Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. [ George Herbert ]

Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me. [ Socrates ]

There is a remedy for every thing, could we but hit upon it. [ Proverb ]

He that shews a passion, tells his enemy where he may hit him. [ Proverb ]

Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time? [ Yogi Berra ]

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple. [ Thoreau ]

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it. [ Bishop Horne ]

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance. [ Seneca ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best, may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, will never hit it. [ Owen Feltham ]

Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum; force is always aggressive, and crowds something or other, if it does not hit and trample upon it. [ O. W. Holmes ]

I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the brain the makes you want to study the brain. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. [ Cervantes ]

A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese? They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand one cannon ball than a volley of bullets. [ Colton ]

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit: but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures. [ Thucydides ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]