"A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top."
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"Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole."
"We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."
"Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."
"I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier."
"You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth."
"I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of."
"You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper"
"What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes."
"My hole is warm and full of light."
"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
"thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes"
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
"People don't buy drills they buy holes"
"I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season"
"It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner."
"The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken."
"All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute."
"Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine."
"When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell."