I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Dissociating himself from that literary grouping, in The Eton College Chronicle,  Jun.

Then Jael Heber'swifetook anail ofthetent, and took an hammer inher hand, and went softly untohimand smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges 4:21.

He asked for water, and she brought him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges 5:25^8.

I care not whether a man isgood or evil; all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool.Go! put off Holiness, And put on intellect, or my thunderous hammer shall drive thee, To wrath which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.

-Blake,William
c.1804^1807  Jerusalem, plate 91.

She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and hammer angled right. The sound of that relaxed alluring blow, Its co-opted and obliterated echo, Taught me to hit, taught me to loosen, Taught me between the hammer and the block To face the music. Teach me now to listen, To strike it rich behind the linear black.

-Heaney, SeamusJustin
  The Haw Lantern,'Clearances: In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911^1984'.

Ingeneral, therefore, color isa means ofexerting a direct influenceuponthesoul.Coloristhekeyboard.The eyeis the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

-Kandinsky,Wassily
Quoted in K C Lindsay and P  Vergo (eds and trans) Kandinsky: Complete Writings on  Art (1982).

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

-Ruskin,John
Letter.

It's weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house wi' handkerchers at your een when ye lose a friend; but the like o'us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer. 724

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Saunders Mucklebackit to Oldbuck.TheAntiquary, ch.34.