“Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.”

“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

“Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?”

Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor

“If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.”

John le Carré book The Mission Song

“And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”

Harlan Coben book Shelter

“I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

“The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.”

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist