When you're in a hole, stop digging.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.
In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.
I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.