Digging a hole for yourself
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When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
PAT ROBERTSON Will Rogers once said, 'If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.' Medi...
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 The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from...
THOMAS SZASZ Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
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 RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dea...
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 ...
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