Hang not all on one nail. [ German Proverb ]

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

Make a pearl on your nail. [ Proverb ]

One nail drives out another. [ Proverb ]

Drive that nail that will go. [ Proverb ]

A clattering hoof means a nail gone. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin, so merry, draws one out. [ Dr. John Wolcott ]

A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass,
Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. [ Scott ]

Drive not a second nail till the first be clinched. [ Proverb ]

Who will make a door of gold must knock a nail every day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He may make a will upon his nail, for any thing he has to give. [ Proverb ]

You need not go to the iron-mills every time you lack a tack-nail. [ Proverb ]

Ambition hath one heel nail'd in hell, Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. [ Lilly ]

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. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. [ Bishop Hall ]

God took his softest clay and his purest colors, and made a fragile jewel, mysterious and caressing - the finger of woman; then he fell asleep. The devil awoke, and at the end of that rosy finger put a nail. [ Victor Hugo ]

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. [ St. Augustine ]