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-- Denis Healey
Remind's me of this one from Terry Pratchett:
"All you get if you are good at digging holes it's a bigger shovel."
Shouldn't that be: "All you get if you are good at digging holes is a bigger shovel."?
Thanks for fixing my broken english.
There is actually several quotes expressing the same idea in different Terry Pratchett's book. Everyone of them much better than what I could remember. I dug these two ones:
In Wyrd Sisters you have (Granny Weatherwas speaking): “The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel.”
And another one from "Carpe Jugulum" that I like even better (also Granny Weatherwax speaking): "The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel."
I've also seen this quote attributed to Will Rogers, but it seems to be unconfirmed.
Wikipedia has a couple of citations giving it to Healey, although that is hardly definitive. The First Law of Holes has its own subsection on his Wikipedia page.
I don't know if Healey was the first to say it, but he definitely said it. I heard him (on the radio) at the time.