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
Whoever digs a hole for someone else, will fall in it themselves. — Hungarian Proverbs
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. — Dorothy Bryant
Plough your furrows deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. — Albanian Proverbs
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. — Carl Sandburg
He who digs pits for others will fall in them himself. — Polish Proverbs
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. — Wovoka
TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY,
AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS. — Robert Green Ingersoll
He who digs a pit for others falls in himself. — Polish Proverbs
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig. — Texas Bix Bender
Short Shovel Quotes
Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time. — Janet Street-Porter
When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business. — Mark Twain
It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels. — Josh Williams
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing. — Erma Bombeck
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. — Robert Ballard
Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard — Margaret Culkin Banning
Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel. — Jill Shalvis
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. — Donald T. Regan
He'd be better off shoveling snow. — Richard Strauss
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. — John Wanamaker
Snow Shovel Quotes
One of the best ways to move naturally is by inconveniencing yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel. — Dan Buettner
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller
Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower. — Sayings
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo. — Louise Penny
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller
Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet. — Henry Rollins
Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too? — Jay Leno
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm . — Marcel Duchamp
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel. — Dan Buettner
If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough. — Lucky Luciano
My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. — Gary Johnson
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. — Amelia Earhart
I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment. — John Mulaney
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers. — Rod Serling
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. — Jackson Pollock
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one. — Aldo Leopold
You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country. — Loretta Lynn
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest. — Thomas A. Edison
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit. — Peter Lynch
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants. — Aldo Leopold
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
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis. — Kurt Vonnegut
I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late! — Gregory Hines
No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need. — Thomas S. Monson
Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag. — Edna Ferber
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on. — Buzz Aldrin
...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel — Edgar Allan Poe
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature. — O. Henry
No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel. — Austin O'Malley
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
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune. — Saint Basil
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. — Aldo Leopold
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. — Elbert Hubbard
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body. — Henry David Thoreau
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. — Margaret Atwood
Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money. — Rodney Dangerfield
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