No jesting with edged tools. [ Proverb ]
What is a work-man without tools? [ Proverb ]
Never had ill workman good tools. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No good workman without good tools. [ Proverb ]
An ill labourer quarrels with his tools. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
All ill workmen quarrel with their tools. [ Proverb ]
I have wrought great use out of evil tools. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. [ Proverb ]
A whetstone cannot itself cut, but yet it makes tools cut. [ Proverb ]
A man may be an artist though he have not his tools about him. [ Proverb ]
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Ennui is the rust of the mind born of idleness. It is unused tools that corrode. [ Mme. de Girardin ]
Land should be given to those who can use it, and tools to those who can use them. [ John Ruskin ]
Physicians attend to the business of physicians and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [ Horace ]
The more enthusiastic, the more liable we are to be imposed upon, and to become the tools of the designing. [ Bovee ]
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. [ Colton ]
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; and the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. [ Confucius ]
Books, to judicious compilers, are useful, - to particular arts and professions absolutely necessary, - to men of real science they are tools; but more are tools to them. [ Johnson ]
No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil. [ Lowell ]