If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help. — Seymour Chwast
If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything. — Seymour Chwast
Whoever digs a hole for someone else, will fall in it themselves. — Hungarian Proverbs
If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep. — Dan Millman
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it. — Gertrude Jekyll
Don’t dig a hole for someone else or you will fall into it yourself. — Russian Proverbs
If you ever find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. — American Proverbs
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. — Tammara Webber
When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. — Will Rogers
He who digs pits for others will fall in them himself. — Polish Proverbs
He who digs a grave for his enemy might as well be digging one for himself. — African Proverbs
He who digs a pit for others falls in himself. — Polish Proverbs
Don't dig wells for others for you will fall into one yourself. — Afghan Proverbs
Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good. — Marcus Aurelius
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. — Marcus Aurelius
Short Digging A Hole Quotes
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. — Carl Sandburg
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there. — Wole Soyinka
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy! — Edwin Drake
Little by little, the bird makes its nest. — French Proverbs
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. — Gary Snyder
Dripping water hollows out a stone — Ovid
Constant dripping hollows out a stone. — Lucretius
Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith. — James Gordon Lindsay
Digging A Hole Image Quotes
When you find yourself in a hole, QUIT DIGGING.
Digging Out Of A Hole Quotes
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer. — A. A. Milne
In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper. — Wellington Mara
We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole. — Harry Reid
Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny." — Paul Feig
Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it. — John Hurt
The war in Iraq is a serious situation. It's - it involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. So we should take everything serious. This is - we find ourselves in a very deep hole. We need to find a way to dig out of it. — Harry Reid
Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry.
As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made. — Henry David Thoreau
Digging Ditches Quotes
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship. — Julian of Norwich
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! — Edna Ferber
If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to. — Brian Setzer
I don't understand how a musician can play 90 minutes on stage and then not dedicate a little bit of time to hang out at their merch table. It's not like digging a ditch or something; you're standing there thanking people for coming out to see you. — Aaron Watson
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health. — Ray Bradbury
Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head. — Ann Miller
Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind. — Maya Angelou
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. — Natalie Merchant
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. — Edna Ferber
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. — Thomas Harris
You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference — Wangari Maathai
I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else. — Seymour Chwast
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees. — Wangari Maathai
It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather! — Louis Sachar
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall. — Russell Simmons
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel. — Rahm Emanuel
You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper. — Edward De Bono
Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon. — Lionel Shriver
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. — Anne Lamott
You'll get much better results by being upfront, answering creditors calls, and responding to their letters. Delaying the inevitable only digs a deeper hole. — Jean Chatzky
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels. — Thomas Friedman
When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging. — William Easterly
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole. — Unknown
When you are in a hole, stop digging! — Bill McKibben
Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in — Yoko Ono
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. — Criss Jami
You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole. — Roscoe Bartlett
Well, sex is life. You know, if you don't do it anymore, you can take a spoon and go into the woods and dig yourself a hole and be finished! Eroticism is the driving force behind everything in the world. — Luigi Colani
You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole. — Jeanne Marie Laskas
That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body." — George Saunders
Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him. — Viktor Suvorov
If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging. — Roy W. Walters
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. — Warren Buffett
Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice. — Nick Offerman
Cavities are made by sugar. So if you need to dig a hole, then lay down some candy bars! — Mitch Hedberg
Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system. — Alexander Elder
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging. — Stephen F. Lynch
Canada is a malstructured. You could almost call it a failed economy, except that its natural resources are so rich that everybody can get wealthy off making holes in the ground and digging up the oil and polluting the environment. — Michael Hudson
I feel very fortunate to have known James Salter, not very well, but I knew him over the years. Always, people would be talking, talking, talking, and after digging themselves into a deep enough hole, they would turn to Jim and wait for him to utter the single clarifying sentence. — David Salle
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