Digging a hole for yourself


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When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
PAT ROBERTSON
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LEONARD BURMAN
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
COWBOY PROVERB
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
WARREN BUFFETT
The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they...
BILL CLINTON
When in a hole, stop digging.
SANJEEVA ANANTHAN
When you're in a hole, stop digging
DENIS HEALEY
The only time you start at the top is when you’re digging a hole.
SAM CHAND
Are you climbing a mountain, or digging a hole.
KENT POLLON
If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging.
ROY W. WALTERS
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
We're not in a hole yet, but we're digging ourselves into one. Every game we don't win, we get deepe...
JASON RICHARDSON
The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.
DAN BENNETT
The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.
DAN BENNETT
Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.
CAROLYN MACKLER
I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my sh...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
[Simmons, author of] Twilight in the Desert, ... We are in a deep hole and we have to stop digging.
SAUDI ARABIA
We adhere to the rule that if your opponent is digging a hole, you don't take away his shovel.
JAY REIFF
Every time we were put into a hole, we were digging out, putting ourselves back in position to win.
JOSH BIDWELL
When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yo...
JODI PICOULT
Dig yourself into a hole
PROVERB
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hol...
RAHM EMANUEL
It's hard to come back when you dig such a deep hole for yourself.
MIKE JAMES
We prepare well for every game, but we keep coming out with slow starts and digging ourselves a hole...
KARRON CLARKE
We had a great effort in the second half to bring it within four. But we kept digging ourselves into...
BRAD FARRELL
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA...
STEPHEN F. LYNCH
A lot of them will not do it at all. It's not digging a bigger hole to put the body in; it really is...
JACK SPRINGER
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM
This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more usef...
MENANDER ATHENS
I like digging here because it's fun and we're digging for dinosaur bones.
ANTHONY ROBINSON
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
We just seemed to keep digging a bigger hole for ourselves today. Abilene High hit the ball well, an...
CONNIE FINN
Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON
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THOMAS SZASZ
Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
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CHARMAINE J. FORDE
The value of someone is not determined by titles, positions and sects, but by the impact and the maj...
LYDOR BRUNICE
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
For the first time in a while, it seems to be letting up, so we're digging out, and there's a lot of...
CHUCK SHEPARD
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it pr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ
The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...
THOMAS SZASZ
Believe in your greatness. Believe in your potential. Don't sell yourself short. Don't give up too e...
AKIROQ BROST
[Khan] would do anything you asked him if you needed help. If he saw me digging a hole in my yard he...
THOMAS ADAMS
When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lie...
MADELEINE BRENT
We all have our own way in a different thinking.
JAN JANSEN
If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "y...
FRANCES HARDINGE
Well from now on, Linus think for yourself... Don't take any advice from anyone!
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what
I've...
RAY BRADBURY
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness...
CHARLES HOLE
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, ...
THOMAS SZASZ
But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
JON KRAKAUER
It stinks, ... We've dug a hole. No one else dug this hole for us.
CHESTER PITTS
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
We didn't execute. When you do that against a team that pressures well, you're going to dig yourself...
JAMIE ULLMAN
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS...
Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN
The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE
is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR.
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
When you turn the ball over that many times, you put yourself in a hole that's tough to come back fr...
JOEL WELLS
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I’m in looks so strangely fami...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You can train yourself to notice this kind of wildlife. Next time you have some weeding or a bit of ...
KEN THOMPSON
Oppenheimer was well known for black hole theory. He as a subject was a black hole — extremely enig...
KAI BIRD
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English Proverb.
UNKNOWN
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole e...
CYNTHIA OZICK
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He's trying to build hype around himself when he has no intention of fighting, ... He was a great 13...
ZAB JUDAH
Everybody now is digging a little deeper.
JOSEPH KALINOWSKI
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
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AMBROSE BIERCE
It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN
We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER
Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER

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