Digging A Hole Quotes

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

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

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don’t like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn’t for that person, you wouldn’t be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?” “My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden – you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

I’m the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn’t stop until it’s finished.

If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help.

I’ll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he’ll always get the answer.

If you’re digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn’t help anything.