“If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.”
John le Carré book The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
Source: UnDivided
“If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.”
John le Carré book The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.”
Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1943315,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/24/schroeder.blair/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030621143902/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s865620.htm
2000s
Ken Dodd (1927–2018) English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor
Quoted in Manchester Evening News, http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/comedy/s/234/234894_dodds_bolton_bonus.htmlDodd's Bolton bonus, Natalie Anglesey. (2008-04-28)
“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“This was a watering hole, and watering holes drew the hungry as well as the parched.”
Alastair Reynolds book Terminal World
Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 16 (p. 265)
“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.”
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 8.