Modern Proverbs Appeal (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jim Parish]

Bill Mullins wrote:
> I've always heard this as, "If your only tool is a hammer, every problem
> looks like a nail."

The version I'm familiar with - which I do use as a proverb - is "To a
man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I don't know where I
ran across it, though.

Jim Parish

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