
“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
Variant: If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
Variant: If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.”
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 8.
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
“I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.”
Source: Twisted
“The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.”