Modern Proverbs Appeal (UNCLASSIFIED)

[James C Stalker]

Wouldn't this be the first print version of the proverb?  Perhaps refined
from the oral version?

JCS

Fred Shapiro writes:

> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>
>>> Similar sounding: "When you need to drive a nail, everything
>>> looks like a hammer."
>>>
>> I've always heard this as, "If your only tool is a hammer, every problem
>> looks like a nail."
>
> According to the staggeringly informative Yale Book of Quotations, the
> quotation is the following:
>
> It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything
> as if it were a nail.
>        Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance ch. 2
> (1966)
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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James C. Stalker
Department of English
Michigan State University

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